the charts below show information about honey-bee colonies and honey production in the US

The bar charts represent the statistics on the

number

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of

honey

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production

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and

honey

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-bee

colonies

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between 1970 and 2010 in the United States.

Overall

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, there was a decrease in both:

honey

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production

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and the

number

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of

colonies

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.

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, there is a clear correlation between the

number

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of

colonies

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and the amount of produced

honey

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. It can be seen that the decade, where there was a growth in

production

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, preceded by a decade with the rise in the colony's numbers. On the one hand, generally, there is a downtrend in both of the graphs. In terms of

colonies

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number

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, there was a dramatic decrease from 4 million to approximately 1.8 million

colonies

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. The same pattern could be seen in the amount of

honey

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production

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, which was a drop of almost 2 times.

On the other hand

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, there were some fluctuations in the decrease.

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, they took place in different decades. From the first graph, it can be seen that from 1970 to 1990 there was a slight increase in 1980 (to about 4.2). The second graph repeats

this

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pattern but in other years, from 1980 to 2000.