Helping hand for the bumblebee From: Yorkshire Post | Date: June 3, 2006 | Copyright 2006 Yorkshire Post. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Farmers urged to get busy at making fields buzz

Maggie Stratton

FARMERS are being urged to plant wild flowers to play their part in saving the bumblebee from extinction.

Three species of native bumblebee are already extinct and the number of bumblebees on farms has declined by more than 70 per cent over the past two decades.

Farmers visiting this year's Great Yorkshire Show will be encouraged to introduce plots of grasses and wild flower mixtures to help bring the bumblebee back from the brink.

The show will feature trial plots to show how farmers can plant field margins to encourage numbers ...

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