http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/070502bees.htmlHoneybees buzzed and hovered around Erin Forbes as she slowly pulled apart their winter hive and moved it, section by section, into a bigger box.
"They're pretty mellow," Forbes said, holding up a board to show the queen and some newly laid eggs.
Forbes, on the other hand, was excited. Spring had finally arrived, the sun was warm and her bees were busy once again, collecting pollen and nectar.
Around the country, beekeepers have lost hundreds of thousands of colonies since November to a mysterious die-off called colony collapse disorder. In Maine, however, beekeepers and their industrious insects appear to have been spared -- so far. Forbes, for example, lost just one of her 14 hives during the past winter.
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