Bumble bee numbers have been on decline for several years. Dr Ben Darvil is Chief Executive of the Bumble Bee Conservation Trust. There are 24 species of bumble bee alive in the UK, but two species have already become extinct since the Second World War as he explained to Ken Crowther.
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