It is feared that the increased popularity of urban bee hives is actually doing more harm than good.
The Telegraph reports that the number of hives in London alone doubled from 1,677 to more than 3,500, in the five years from 2008 to 2013.
And while it might appear to be a good thing, Professor Francis Ratnieks, from the Laboratory of Apiculture & Social Insects at Sussex, says the garden feature may be causing problems.
The professor says that with more bees and other flower-visiting insects now competing for pollen then it could be just one of the reasons behind the decline in bee numbers which has been observed.
Instead of bee hives, people should simply plant more flowers to help increase the amount of pollen, be that a simple window box to planting up sections of a garden.
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