When you are sitting in your garden, cup of tea in hand, do you find yourself grumbling when you spot a beetle nibbling your hydrangeas or a fly landing on your prized patch of raspberries? Or do you welcome these tiny visitors, as part of the life of your garden?
Some creatures are difficult to like but, as the threat of an insect apocalypse looms, it is clear we need to try harder to get along. In Britain, flying insects alone have declined as much as 60 per cent in the past 20 years, a survey by Buglife and Kent