Bee

"It’s a monumentally stupid situation," Patrick Murfet, who wants to bring in baby Italian bees to help farmers pollinate valuable crops, says.

Many species of bee are on the brink of extinction in the UK, some have been lost entirely. They are increasingly under threat from climate change, habitat loss, pollution and disease. Major conservation efforts are needed to save our hard-working pollinators. We take a look at just why the humble bee is so important…

The world’s largest bee has been rediscovered by a team of biologists, more than 160 years after it was first seen on an Indonesian island. Last seen in 1981, Megachile pluto is as long as an adult’s thumb and four times larger than a honey bee.