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Honeybees suffer massive losses
Area beekeepers deal with insects' deaths
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Bob Bradbury prepares to remove the cover from one of his beehives to check their progress at his Flowery Branch home earlier this week. Bradbury has about a dozen hives at his home and more in Habersham County.
When local beekeeper Bob Bradbury surveyed his beehives last March in preparation for spring, he found a big surprise. About 80 percent of his hives were empty. Though dismayed, he was not completely shocked because bees have been dying in massive numbers across the country, and even the world, for several years.