Total annual losses were the lowest since 2011-12, when the survey recorded less than 29 percent of colonies lost throughout the year. Survey results for this year and all previous years are publicly available on the Bee Informed website. Winter loss rates decreased from 26.9 percent in the previous winter to 21.1 percent this past winter, while summer loss rates decreased from 23.6 percent to 18.1 percent. This is the 11th year of the winter loss survey, and the seventh year to include summer and annual losses. All told, these beekeepers manage about 13 percent of the nation’s estimated 2.78 million honey bee colonies.