Table 1 Total colony losses of honey bees predicted per country and year with a 95% Confidence Interval (based on GLMs).

From: First large-scale study reveals important losses of managed honey bee and stingless bee colonies in Latin America

Year

% colonies

N

No. colonies

% Summer loss (95% CI)

N

No. colonies

% Winter loss (95% CI)

N

No. colonies

% Annual loss (95% CI)

Argentina

 2016–2017

1.76

135

50,805

22.1 (18.6–26)

121

46,778

20.9 (17.2–25.3)

111

44,578

34.8 (30.3–39.7)

 2017–2018

1.58

107

41,731

13.8 (10.9–17.3)

110

46,610

11.9 (9.2–15.4)

91

40,499

21.4 (17.5–25.9)

Bolivia

 2016–2017

–

76

2266

27.1 (14.5–44.8)

67

2246

20.5 (10–37.5)

61

1901

36.3 (21.4–54.4)

Brazil

 2016–2017

0.89

114

8639

27 (20.2–35.2)

112

5085

23.2 (14.7–34.7)

95

4719

44.7 (34–56)

 2017–2018

2.63

88

25,345

13 (10–16.7)

66

20,765

31.9 (26.2–38.2)

60

19,384

27 (21.8–32.8)

Chile

 2016–2017

6.42

120

27,877

28.7 (24.5–33.4)

90

17,487

21 (15.9–27.2)

74

16,511

42.1 (36–48.5)

 2017–2018

6.08

97

21,595

15.3 (11.9–19.6)

97

25,101

26.1 (21.5–31.4)

85

19,507

25.6 (20.9–30.9)

Colombia

 2016–2017

7.5

41

8005

29.6 (22.1–38.4)

38

8335

21.9 (14.8–31.3)

37

7910

42.8 (34.3–51.8)

 2017–2018

30.46

70

30,827

40.2 (33.9–46.8)

63

31,882

28.5 (22.8–35.1)

52

28,384

52.5 (45.8–59.1)

Cuba

 2017–2018

3.77

14

6224

22.6 (15.7–31.3)

13

5142

7 (2.9–15.8)

12

4140

18.8 (11.2–29.8)

Mexico

 2016–2017

1.1

86

16,963

3.4 (1.8–6.3)

91

20,110

20.9 (16.5–26)

83

16,644

17.3 (13.2–22.4)

 2017–2018

1.42

226

29,590

6.1 (4.3–8.6)

227

30,623

11.6 (8.9–15.1)

220

29,308

15.2 (12–18.9)

Panama

 2017–2018

–

25

1768

8.2 (2.3–25.4)

28

1969

12 (4.5–28.5)

25

1768

17.1 (7.2–35.2)

Peru

 2016–2017

–

66

2920

12.3 (5.6–24.8)

33

8374

23.8 (16.5–33.1)

30

755

12.7 (2.6–44.4)

 2017–2018

–

94

16,722

31.4 (25.6–37.8)

105

19,148

23.2 (18.1–29.2)

70

13,446

41.5 (34.6–48.7)

Puerto Rico

 2017–2018

31.65

10

575

7.8 (0.6–53.5)

10

810

15.5 (3.9–45.1)

9

460

27.9 (7.2–65.9)

Uruguay

 2016–2017

7.52

109

43,888

14.1 (11.6–17.1)

43

14,781

29.2 (23.1–36.2)

42

14,629

38.2 (31.8–45)

 2017–2018

6.12

88

29,108

16.3 (13.1–20)

92

30,398

22 (18.1–26.5)

79

25,487

32 (27.4–37.1)

  1. N is the number of respondents. No. colonies is the sum of colonies per period (i.e. summer, winter, annual). % Colonies is the proportion of the colonies included in the study regarding the total number of managed colonies registered in the country based on the FAO dataset (FAOSTAT 2023).
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