CONVERSATION

Think of the bees

The plastic-eating caterpillars in your April issue (p82) are born in beehives. They love honeycomb, yes? Well, our poor old native bees are already under attack from evil killer mites, and foreign murder hornets! Won’t releasing these caterpillars into the environment be the final nail in the coffin for our native bees?

Gary S, North Wales

The caterpillar