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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11311

9 May 2015
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) animal health
Honeybees - colony mortality worse in Northern EU

Brussels, 08/05/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 5 May, the European Commission published the initial results of a two-year study into honeybee colony mortality in the EU. The countries of northern EU have been the worst hit by the phenomenon, but the causes are still hard to pin down.

Honeybee colony mortality in winter varied between 2.4% and 15.4% between the countries in 2013-2014, according to the initial results of the pan-European epidemiological study on honeybee colony losses...