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“Most of the bees come to their end in the open fields. With wings frayed from the winds the summer workers reach the limit of their strength and expire.  Bees that die within the hive are carried outside by the workers – yet this is a rare occurrence.  As many observers have reported, dying bees [...]

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What a Relief!

Mum came out of the house just at that moment.  We shared the excitement with her.  “Look!” I said “What do you think it is?”  “It is a swarm of bees!” Mum said. Bees!  There was a scientific explanation for all those mysterious happenings.  And it lay in the fact that all these strange things [...]

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They’ve built barriers, shone flashlights and even burned their rubber-soled shoes.  yet try as they might, African farmers struggle to keep elephants from trampling their land and destroying their crops. The answer, finally, may be found in the sound of a swarm of buzzing bees.  “They really bolted,” says Lucy King at the University of [...]

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