Huang Dong-ming estimates that the number of beehives in Taiwan has fallen to less than 80,000 from over 100,000 a couple years ago. Many beekeepers have set out bees and not gotten them back, and the situation has put some apiaries out of business.
根據黃東明的估算，近兩年台灣飼養的蜜蜂已由十多萬箱減為 8 萬箱以下，許多蜂農的確遭遇工蜂飛了出去就迷航不復返的情形，甚至也有業者因此關門倒閉。