Time for a Plan Bee?

We’re always keen on a pun at LabourList – and this one from Lord Jim Knight shouldn’t pass without comment. It’s about bees – but stick with it…

“As your Lordships know, bees as pollinators play an essential part in the lifecycle of the fruit and vegetables we eat.  The honey bee is just one of 276 native species, all of whom are under threat from the combination of agricultural practice, disease and pesticides.  In his department’s negotiations with the EU to reduce hazards to bees, what is the minister aiming to achieve to protect wild bees such as the Bumble bee that pollinates tomatoes and the long tongued bees needed to pollinate field beans? And with Friends of the Earth calling for a National Bee Action Plan, does he agree it is finally time for a Plan Bee?”

He’ll bee quite proud of that, we’d imagine…