FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO): Area bee keepers are as busy as… bees.

That’s because the honey harvest in northeast Indiana is just about finished, according to our partners in news at 21Alive, but one piece of related news isn’t so sweet.

The global bee population seems to keep dropping, and researchers aren’t sure why.

Luckily the decline isn’t as extreme in this part of the country, but last winter area beekeepers did lose close to 20% of their colonies.

Beekeepers in the region have averaged a harvest of between 20 and 90 pounds of honey per colony this summer.