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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: if bees are going extinct how come i can so easily go down to the store and buy honey and it's not even very expensive?
gpt
While the number of hives is still steadily declining, beekeepers are finding greater profit in honey than in pollination now. They have also learned to better manage collapsing colonies by more frequently splitting them into two colonies. Also, the clover crop is strong, which is where most of the honey comes from.     
     
So, while the number of hives has declined on average 30% per year since 2006, the number of honey producing hives has risen at least 4% during those same years. Even though the bees are dying, there is actually record honey production.