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fatshark
01-06-2014, 04:51 AM
From the Daily Mail ...
"Beekeepers will be encouraged to keep the British native dark bee (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2645004/Her-Royal-Hiveness-Her-Majestys-grant-giveaway-reverse-dramatic-decline-Britains-bee-population.html), or black bee, which is more resistant to British weather."
Here is the Daily Mail's image of a bee …
2050
Not entirely dark.

Duchy of Lancaster land can be viewed here (http://www.duchyoflancaster.co.uk/properties-and-estates/holdings/) … though I fear most readers will be ineligible.

HJBee
01-06-2014, 07:53 AM
Well I am completely jealous, being a Lancastrian, and frequently visiting the Duchy estate with my folks (The Inn at Whitewell is a lovely eatery). The landscape us beautiful. So a) to live there and b) to be given £1k towards beckoning with Natural bee's.......