Hotels for bees!

Brussels is planning on spending £1 million to build non-pesticide 'hotels' for French bees in an attempt to curb their decline in population.

Scientists believe the project, which has begun in Lyons, will e very helpful for the European bee population and could also save vegetables, fruit, flowers and billions of Euros.

The five-year programme will cost around £2 million and will include building 48 4m by 2m 'hotels' made from earth, brick and plant stalks.

Frederic Vyghen, of Arthropology, an environmental association running the project, said that the bee population has declined mainly due to the large amount of pesticides used in farming areas. In theory bees would be safer living in urban communities such as towns.

France generated sales of £100 million last year thanks to it's 1.3 million hives. My Vyghen says "if they died out, we'd have no vegetables, fruit - nothing."