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Why do honey bees swarm? A local swarm of bees moved into one of our empty hives
“Bees will be bees and do what they want to do however hard you try to manipulate them.” Brenda announced this over a leisurely mug of tea years ago and she’s right. Brenda is married to our one time Bee Mentor Mike Hastings. She has that special something – our Min Pins fawned on her rather than yapping and dancing away with their normal ‘don’t touch me’ skip. She is one of the calmest most centred people that I have ever met. Of course Brenda didn’t mean that bees should not be husbanded. They need care and help to...
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