>> The cost of honey-bee almond pollination services is believed to have risen in connection with increased costs of maintaining hives in the midst of an industrywide overwintering loss epidemic which is attributable to, but not limited to, colony collapse disorder

Note also that honey prices have gone up (almost doubled), as more of those resources are shifted into "growing more bees" to replace heavy losses: http://www.honey.com/honey-industry/honey-industry-statistic...