by Tom Walsh
There is set to be a major buzz around a top Lakeland holiday park this summer as around 7,000 bees are expected to arrive over the summer.
Visitors at Skelwith Fold caravan park in Ambleside are being asked to keep their eyes open for the ‘solitary bees’ which are believed to be an endangered species.
The park has been doing all it can to encourage the bees to come to the site by creating imaginative habitation projects.
Officials have created thousands of tiny timber tunnels bored in hardwood logs which are positioned in piles throughout the premises.
The park hopes that the 7,000 tunnels will provide the perfect homes in which the bees can rest and make nests for their larvae.
Park owner Henry Wild said: “We can now accommodate thousands of extra bees, and I hope we will also find some less common types from among the two hundred species known to exist.”
