A study published in 2017 found that 33 per cent of wild pollinator species had declined between 1980 and 2013, while only 10 per cent increased.

This increases our need for fully wild pollinators, yet we continue to reduce their numbers.

Without them, it has to rely on wild pollinators such as bumblebees, solitary bees and hoverflies.

Where wild pollinators have been wiped out, domesticated pollinators - honeybees - have been introduced and maintained, and that's complex and expensive.

You would think promoting biodiversity and wildflowers was in line with the government's own advice that we should provide more food for wild pollinators.