SAINT-AIGNAN DE GRAND LIEU, France
French beekeepers Yves Leroux inspects a frame from a beehive in a garden in Saint-Aignan de Grand Lieu...
French beekeepers Yves Leroux, a retired and an amateur apiarist, checks a frame from a beehive in a garden in Saint-Aignan de Grand Lieu, western France, April 24, 2013. A global decline in the numbers of bees, the reasons for which are baffling scientists, is alarming everyone from farmers to European Union policy makers. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe (FRANCE - Tags: AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENT ANIMALS)