Multiple choice · Test 2

Bees on the rooftops

Twenty years ago, few city dwellers would have 0considered keeping bees. Today, however, hives can be found on the roofs of offices, hotels and even railway stations, and urban beekeeping has 1 something of a fashion.

Its 2 say that bees thrive in towns, where flowers grow in 3 in gardens, parks and window boxes, and where insects are largely free from the pesticides used on farmland. City honey, they add, is often of surprisingly high quality.

Yet some scientists have begun to 4 doubt on this rosy picture. Wild bees, many of which are already under threat, have to 5 with honeybees for the same limited supply of pollen and nectar. In some cities, the number of hives has more than doubled in ten years, giving 6 to fears that there may simply not be enough food to go round.

None of this means that city beekeepers should 7 up their hobby. But experts suggest that anyone who wants to help pollinators might do better to plant wild flowers, which benefit all bees, 8 than set up yet another hive.

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