Blue and Green: English honey bees benefitted from this years mild winter and improved colony survival rate, but experts noted that the loss is still too high.
Winter survey by the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) revealed that honey bee colony losses were one in ten compared to losses of more than one in three over the winter of 2012-2013, with improvement shown in all regions across England.
However, the association said that an average of 9.6 colonies in every 100 being lost between 1 October 2013...