As spring arrives and trees burst into brilliant and fragrant bloom all around the village, it is hard to imagine we might ever have a world without bees buzzing around our gardens and fields. No more bee-loud glades….

Without bees, we would not have most of our global food crops. Almost three quarters of them depend on pollinators like bees. “The global value of pollination for commercial food production has been estimated at approximately $351 billion”, a 2016 report on pollinators found.