A society of advanced apes with a penchant for destroying their environment decides that a species that is necessary for their survival is better off dead because they don't care for a weird thing called science.
For a successful civillization reality must take precedence over public relations for Nature cannot be fooled.
People are just fing resistant to change and we've really made a mess in a lot of ways not good for the hive or the bess and unbound externality called willful ignorance is burning away at the roots of society, jeopardizing the tree of consciouness.
It's more than a travesty.
Which world are you living in?
Sooner or later it becomes a question of survival.
It seems like most of the problems we have as a society are because we choose expedient solutions rather than careful solutions to problems.
Additionally, it is likely that honeybees are native to Britain: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250278609_Are_honey...
The greater issue here though is that if honeybees are affected, there are likely many other bee species and insects that are affected that we _aren't_ protecting.
I don't know specifically about Britain, but most bee species are solitary, and without a hive, they're not as vulnerable to disease, or poison transferred back to their home. Other types of bees accidentally exposed would likely only die themselves, not quickly spread it to and kill other populations.
The problem we have is that there's lots of us and we're pretty insatiable.
Larger mammals like bear, lynx, and wolf were extinct or on their way out. Large birds of prey were aggressively persecuted. There was even land reclamation as far back as Roman times.
Humans have been dominant over wildlife in Britain for a long time. There are probably American zip codes areas that have more untouched landscape than the whole of britain.