Nucleus colonies, which are basically starter colonies, are valued at about $180 to $200 now. That's not including the equipment you put them in. The value of the bees and the equipment you put them in is somewhere between $350 and $500.
If you're a beekeeper and you're having to replace that, you can also factor in what those colonies would have produced for you had they not died over the winter. There is another $300, $400 or $500 in honey and other products or pollination services that they may have done for the beekeeper, had they not been lost over the winter and the beekeeper had to reinvest in starting up a new colony.
Much of what we do relies on looking after those bees so that in the next year they'll be able to provide income for us.