It has been 30 years since Meena Karki of Dhekuldanda, Ribdikot Rural Municipality-4, Bhairavasthan, Palpa, started keeping bees. He now has 25 hives of beekeeping with home-made hives and development. She said that recently the problem of bees dying and escaping has increased.

Karki complains that commercial vegetable growers have to face such problems when they use pesticides indiscriminately. It's been so many years since I started keeping bees, this kind of problem was rare. Now it has increased," she said.

Hom Bahadur Bhattarai of Bhairavasthan in Ribdikot has 35 beehives. Some hive bees have fled, some have died. "The problem of bees escaping, leaving the hive and dying has increased in the past two years," he said. . 

There are about 90 beehives in Nar Bahadur Palli of Jhadeva, Mathagadhi Rural Municipality-4, in the houses, the canals of the fields, the watering holes of the fields, and the dens. He has been keeping bees in a traditional kathe hive. The source of income for his house is the honey of Kathe Ghar. "Nowadays there is a problem of bees escaping and dying," he said, "no one has taken any initiative to solve the problem." But they complain that they could not get support for technical services and honey sales. Nar Bahadur said that in the past, he used to earn at least 150,000 worth of honey a year. "Recently, there are no bees in even half of the hive," he said, "The bees are slowly disappearing." Most of the hives are empty. The swarm of bees has also decreased in the hives.' 

Marmara is an area with good pasture management in Palpa. Agricultural technicians say that honey can be harvested three to five times a year in this area. Lately, many farmers in Marmara have had difficulty keeping bees in old and new hives.

Bhima Disha Magar of Jhadewa Marmara said that even though most of the villagers keep bees in fields, fields and forests in wooden boxes, the problem of dying and escaping has increased. He said that he could be saved from wild rats, calves, anteaters, and ants, but he could not get rid of the problem of running away and dying. Farmers have experience that bees may not stay due to prolonged drought, lack of pasture, and excessive rain in winter. 

Santosh Kumar Chaudhary, an agricultural expert and Acting Head of Agricultural Knowledge Center, said that climate change may also have an effect. "This year there is more and the drought has been for a long time, so we have assumed that there might be a problem," he said.