Lakeland park creates a buzz as bees log in

Guests at an Ambleside holiday caravan park in the Lake District are being asked to keep their eyes open for more than 7,000 extra visitors winging their way to its grounds this year.

• A great diversity of wild flowers.
• A tarn which yields a ready supply of mud needed by solitary bees as plaster to wall-up the cells in which they have left eggs and food.
• A no-go zone for pesticides and insecticides of the type often blamed for bee loss.