According to the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, things are going in the right direction in many municipalities. Motala municipality is in third place among the municipalities surveyed, best of all in Helsingborg, which is now appointed Sweden's most friendly municipality.

"It is positive that so much has been done in the municipalities, there has been a big change," says the Swedish Nature Conservation Association's secretary general Karin Lexén.

More than 60 percent of municipalities have started to convert lawns to meadow land and about as many have ongoing work to phase out chemical pesticides, according to the association's survey to which 212 municipalities responded.

See SVT's previous clip when the municipal ecologist Fia Sundin in Motala talks about grass care within the municipality.

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In Sweden, there are about 270 wild bees and a third of them are about to disappear. In the long term, this is also a threat to man, emphasizes the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation in its report.

Bees and other pollinators perform vital work. Almost 90 per cent of all flowering plants are pollinated by animals and if pollinators are suppressed it also affects food production.

But is it a municipal responsibility to think about bees?

"Of course, it's not just the municipalities' responsibility, it's a responsibility we all have," says Karin Lexén.

But the municipalities can influence a lot, she adds.