Irish Examiner view: Let's bee better and save our pollinating insects 

All-Ireland Pollinator Plan for 2021-2025 seeks to further reduce the threat to the country's 98 wild bee species

A third of Ireland's 98 wild bee species are threatened with extinction because of how we use land, mowing or spraying the flora that sustains these flying life-givers. Picture: iStock

It may confound our hubris, now that we've left our an imprint on Mars and carry international communications centres in our pockets, to be reminded of our dependencies. 

It may be, as technology conquers one horizon after another, chastening to be reminded of how dependent we still are on tiny, disinterested insects — the pollinators essential to plant life.