Honeybees may be making a comeback

Things are looking up for honey bees this year, but keepers know only too well that a fine line separates a good year from a disastrous one.
As many as 85 percent of the honey bees across the state survived the winter, experts estimate. That's a big change from this time last year, when beekeepers opened their hives to find that a cold snap and a mysterious disease had killed off 72 percent of Ohio bees.
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