What’s so special about pollinators?
“Without pollinators, we wouldn’t have apples, strawberries, runner beans, tomatoes and much more besides”
Spring is here at last. The first bumblebee queens are buzzing from flower to flower, freshly emerged from a long hibernation and starving hungry. Red mason bees are coming out of their tunnels and searching for a mate. If you are lucky, you might glimpse in your garden the butter-yellow of a brimstone butterfly, or the splash of white and orange of a passing orange-tip.
As colourful harbingers of spring, they are a sign that warm days and sunshine are ahead, the sight and sound of these insects gladdens the heart, but these creatures are also enormously important. Without pollinators, 87 per cent of all plant species on our planet would set
