Somehow or other I’ve been roped into a farm walk not a million miles from here to look at its rich insect life. In particular the pollinators – to find out how numbers have been boosted. Doubtless I’ll go “oooh, aaah” at whatever crawls or flies from our host’s undergrowth and then say: “Well done, pal, you’ve got a mind-boggling bug collection here.”
And no, I’m not being sarcastic. Very much not so. We all know without bees, ‘flees’ and creepy crawlies this delicate food chain of ours could be fatally