Pesticides, parasites, and starvation are the leading causes of bee deaths.

I would like to know how/why starvation is even possible in a managed colony.

And the article throwing out massive negative numbers like 48% and then mentioning that the actual population is pretty steady due to people splitting and making new colonies. It is still alarming, but I’m pretty sure looking at any pure death statistic without factoring in growth is going to look bad.