Article content Alberta beekeepers are sounding the alarm about the dangerously low supply of honeybees due to delayed or cancelled imports of the insects to the province. With the pandemic making it impossible to import bees last year and significant loss over the cold winter, Alberta hive numbers have plummeted by more than 20,000 and resulted in a 30 per cent reduction in honey production in 2020. Beekeepers were hopeful imported packages of bees from Australia and New Zealand this spring would bolster the population, but ongoing shipping and inspection delays have them worried. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.