via Earthfiles.com Environment | U. S. Honey Bee Deaths Increase Again.

“The reports that I have gotten from beekeepers is that
about 30% of the healthy colonies that have gone to California -
for this 2010 almond pollination to fulfill pollination contracts -
have died in two or three weeks” - Jerry Hayes, Asst. Chief,
Apiary Inspection, Florida Dept. of Agriculture

Another recent article points to the chemical sprays used to kill a new disease that is crippling the orange trees in the orange groves of Florida.

Interesting that the above article states that the newly-arrived bee hives from Florida are dead within 2 – 3 weeks of arrival.