From pollenating flowers to creating honey, bees play a vital yet often overlooked role. Despite providing around 1/3 of our available food, the population of bees is in decline as a result of factors like disease, urbanisation, intensive farming and Colony Collapse Disorder.

Britain only has 25% of the bees needed to pollinate crops, and Europe is missing 13.4 million bee colonies – or 7 billion honeybees.