BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Highlands and Islands | Wild bee decline ‘catastrophic’ - Annotated

• Wild bee populations around the UK are experiencing "catastrophic declines", the Bumblebee Conservation Trust has warned.

• Tony Riome, vice president of Ayr and District Beekeepers Association, said it had been estimated every third mouthful of food consumed could be linked to pollination by bees.

  He said: "If there are no bees there will be no steak.

  "A lot of pollination is wind blown, but bees play a very large part in pollinating the plants that animals eat."