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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Esther Addley

‘Fascinating creatures’: how an army of volunteers fights to save Britain’s bumblebees

Dr Sarah Hudson, a volunteer for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, counts bees at the Bunhill Fields cemetery in London.
Dr Sarah Hudson, a volunteer for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, counts bees at the Bunhill Fields cemetery in London. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

“If you want to look at bees, go to a city rather than the countryside,” says Sarah Hudson, and on a bright spring day in central London, it’s not hard to see what she means.

Hudson, a retired accountant, is carefully picking a path through the overgrown gravestones of the historic Bunhill Fields cemetery, pointing out the bees buzzing through an abundance of wild and cultivated spring flowers.

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