Honeybee Armageddon
We have been drenching the environment for 40 years with neonicotinoids in a species war against insects. Michael Gove has finally managed to ban them for use in the UK. The downside is that we may soon have to be cleaning squashed bugs off our car windscreens. In the 60’s I had to stop my Ford Prefect regularly on a warm summers evening to do so. Safe from neonicotinoids, the battle for better bee health needs to shift to the basic bee hive design. We continue to hark back