‘If everybody did a small bit it would make a huge difference’

Pollinator Plan aims to help bees, other pollinators and biodiversity in Ireland

Beekeepers Mick Lane and Eleanor Attridge of Cork Beekeepers Association at the Apiary in  Inchigaggin, Co Cork. Picture: Larry Cummins.

Earlier this year, the EU Commission highlighted how bees, butterflies, hoverflies and moths have dramatically declined in Europe over the last few years.

It warned that many species are on the verge of extinction with one in three bees and butterflies declining in population and one in ten threatened with extinction.