By Helen Briggs
Environment Correspondent
Britain's urban areas are home to more types of wild bee than farmland, a study has found.
Flowers planted in gardens and allotments provide a valuable food source for bees across the year, according to research.
Scientists counted honey bees, bumble bees and other pollinating insects, in and around some of the UK's largest towns and cities.
Urban habitats can provide a valuable role in bee conservation, they say.
Honey bees, bumble bees and other insects that pollinate plants are under threat from habitat loss, pesticides and diseases.
But new research suggests that bees and other pollinating insects thrive as well in towns and cities as they do in farms and nature reserves.
A team led by Dr Katherine Baldock of the University of Bristol said urban landscapes - making up 7% of the UK - deserve more attention in the drive to protect bees from decline.
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