Ms Oonagh Duggan:

Yes, that can happen, but as long as you have enough habitats for the bees, some badger snuffling around should not have an impact. The problem is we do not have enough habitats. Farmers putting out a couple of piles of sand might not be enough. Then it might not be done in the landscape. I am not even sure how effective that measure is. If it is done on a landscape scale, there should not be an issue with some localised badger doing whatever he was doing in that pile of sand.