According to a
BBC report,
British Bumblebees are in decline due to a mixture of
land-clearance, pesticide use + an abundance of sterile garden plants which lack pollen...
The UK's
15 million gardeners are therefore being urged by the
National Trust and
English Nature to do their bit to
help bumblebee numbers recover by
planting bee-friendly plants...
The loss of bees is not only sad but it also makes it
harder for wild flowers to reproduce and for
commercial orchards to get a good crop.
In fact, in some places the decline of native bees is so bad that
farmers are having to raise their own bees, with the help of specialist firms such as the
Oxford Bee Company!
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