Yeah, it does. The article is explicitly about colonies dying at an unexpectedly high rate. > By October, 150 of Arp’s hives had been wiped out by mites, 12% o

Yeah, it does. The article is explicitly about colonies dying at an unexpectedly high rate. > By October, 150 of Arp’s hives had been wiped out by mites, 12% of his inventory in just a few months. > Commercial beekeepers who send their hives to the almond farms are seeing their bees die in record numbers, and nothing they do seems to stop the decline. > This is more than one-third of commercial US bee colonies... > In the early 1980s, when Arp was just selling honey, he would lose about 5% of his hives per year to disease or weather conditions. Around 2000, Arp’s bees started dying in greater numbers. > First, he experienced a nearly 100% loss of his hives from an infestation of tracheal mites.