-So these boxes should be out, full of bees working.

-Yeah, they have been brought back from the fields, because the bees didn't survive the winter, which went right onto me.

-It's been devastating.

-It was very depressing, yeah. We reckon we lost 3 or 400 hives just this last winter, and we had 5 bad years in the room, so Headhills should have 1,300 hives in operation at this time of year, and we've got less than half about it. And that's preety common throughout not just Scotland, but whole of the UK. I mean I heard stories of someone losing 96 percent.

-Right. One last bee there. It may just survive the year. So very difficult position for you, what are you going to do to survive?

-Come, have a look. Here we have some important bees, just arrived this morning all the way from Italy. It could be on the road for 2 or 3 days, I would say.

Seeing this really bring home to me the problem that we have with bees here. Mark's lost his old 2 familiar story that has been replicated around Britain. Today, I'm going to help put a hundred thousand of newly arrived bees into his hives. 

-Here you goes.

-That's it.

-I don't like banging them around but it has to be done yet.

-It has be be done, yeah, and that's supposed to be a killer of half bees.

-Will lay them there right?

-Yeah, yeah.

Mark puts losses on his farm down to the bad summers we've had in recent years.