It’s good that Oxfordshire County Council are trying to help bees, but they are going about it the wrong way. It’s no good having a hive in every other garden if the bees have nowhere to forage.

They should be encouraging residents to plant bee friendly flowers, and farmers to establish flower meadows, and council land to have wild flowers on it, to be cut at the proper time, after they have seeded and the cuttings removed to prevent rank weeds establishing. Then also get the message to residents to stop using pesticides and to provide nesting sites and the bees and other pollinators will flourish. Wildflower seed and nesting boxes could be provided quite cheaply.

Mrs V Soar, Batley Court, Oldland, South Gloucestershire

 

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