Nature Note:Honeybees

Two honeybees gathered nectar from the wild peppermint.There is a shortage of these bees,which are valuable to agriculture for their pollination services,as well as the honey they produce.A plague has been reducing their numbers greatly.I have seen small numbers of them every year,but that apparently isn't enough for growers.I don't think they will go extinct as they would have done so by now,so at least there is hope for their recovery.In time,they may develop resistance to the infection.