Sacrificing a small patch of your garden may be enough to greatly improve the plight of bees at a time when pollinators are suffering huge declines. “A small wildflower patch or a mini meadow in your garden could have big benefits for biodiversity,” says Janine Griffiths-Lee, a PhD candidate in conservation biology at the University of Sussex. “Just a little corner would do wonders.”
Pollinators are declining around the world for a number of reasons, including pesticide use, climate change and predation by invasive species. And it’s not just pollinators — insects in general are dropping hugely in abundance and diversity across the planet, ripping out a whole baseline ecosystem that provides food for the next level up on the food chain.
