Today beekeepers and experts met together in order to discuss the shortfall in funding for bee research in the face of new threats to Britain's bee population. Apparently DEFRA are only putting £200k a year into research. And let's be honest, for £200k you could be struggling to buy a house. It really is nothing. Bees are important, ignoring the pain they can inflict and the fact that they try to get into your jam sandwiches, they are essential for keeping our flora flourishing and for helping crops. The veroa mite may not seem as big as the spread of TB, but we would be a lot worse off for no bees.
But bees are also being taught how to sniff out bombs. Just think how that would have been for the guy at Glasgow. First he sets himself alight. Then he falls oout of the car. He proceeds to be given a Glasgow kiss by a baggage handler. Finally he gets attacked by a swarm of bees. Now that really wouldn't have been his day.
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