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29 Jun

ENCOURAGE BEES, MAYBE TAKE UP BEEKEEPING – FIRST WEEK IN JULY 2009

Posted by Trevor Sargent in Miscellaneous. Tagged: , , .

The honey bee does so much more than produce honey.  A  by-product of collecting nectar is crop pollination. The value of this farming service has been estimated per colony of bees as around €1,500 worth of pollination a year. In order to collect a pound of honey, a bee flies on average a distance equivalent [...]

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