my personal hives? Not well with all the rain....not gonna be much honey this year because bees couldn't get out to harvest... also the fact that i've had more weddings this year, the twins are turning 4, and i haven't had time to deal with bees much..
Texas wide? Dunno.... i think texas lost about 40% of the bees last year... CCD and all that. But, what people never tell you is that it's ridiculously easy to double or triple a bee population. Take a hive, remove half... queen stays in one side... and as long as the other side has eggs, there will be a new queen in 16 days... voila..
technically thats how swarms are formed... half the population leaves with the old queen.. the old colony has to produce a new queen..
i think, with all the rain, it will be a difficult bee year... but heck.. there's two bee removals on this thread alone...