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Article: Bees under threat from silent killer.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 26, 2008
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Byline: Roy Hattersley
THIS August, only half a million bees will buzz around Little College Farm.
Last summer there were twice as many.
But the plague which threatens every swarm in England has reached the little Suffolk town of Creeting St Mary.
This year, Kathryn and Richard Martin will have only 600lb of honey to sell. Fortunately, beekeepers like bees themselves are indomitable creatures.
And the Martins expect that, sooner or later, scientists will find a cure for the Varroa mite which has floated in from Russia to cause all the trouble.
Men from the Ministry talk about footbaths at the door of every hive to make sure that worker-bees, ...
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