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The Square Mile will be buzzing with the sound of about a million extra honeybees this year.

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The British Beekeepers’ Association, which represents more than 16,000 of the country’s amateur beekeepers, will give a £36,000 grant to support the work of a post graduate student over the next three years, in the prestigious Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects (LASI) at Sussex University.

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Intensification of farming and subsequent decline in food sources rather than pesticides or disease seen as biggest threat to honey bees

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Investigators have concluded that a fire which destroyed a building at a beeswax purification plant in Winfred, Aberdeen was accidental and resulted from solvent that vaporized and ignited.

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A parasitic disease threatening honey bees was among 11 research topics tackled recently by lecturers at Moray College.

The £3,000 study into varroasis was one of the college’s first small research projects necessary to gain university status.

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A former nurse who turned to the world of alternative medicine was accused at the High Court of being responsible for the death of her ‘’soulmate” partner.

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The work of The Food and Environment Research Agency’s (Fera) knowledge management team has won the prestigious 2009 Whitehall & Westminster World Civil Service Award for Knowledge Management and Analysis.

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When Antibiotics Fail, Nurses Turn to Maggots and Manuka Honey to Beat Superbugs

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Back in July, half a million honey bees checked in at the Lancaster London, making it the first central London hotel to install beehives on its roof.

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DEFRA has angered anti-pesticide campaigners after it claimed chemical sprays were not to blame for the sharp decline in British bee numbers.

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