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    LASI Waggle Dance Workshop 

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    Published on 21-06-2011 06:29 AM

    On Saturday I spent a fascinating afternoon at the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects at the University of West Sussex Just outside Brighton.

    As the traffic was a lot better than the weather I managed to get there early and had plenty of time to have a mosey around the labs and meet some of the great and the good of UK apicultural ...
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    The Evil Mobile Phones are back! 

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    Published on 26-05-2011 06:20 PM

    In a brand new telling including the usual taking figures out of context, that weird study done in India last year is back in the news... ...
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    What I learned in my first year.... 

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    Published on 02-03-2010 08:20 PM
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    This is a shameless rip off of a similar post on a similar forum but now I'm entering year 2 and hence now know everything there is to know about beekeeping I thought it might be interesting and hopefully useful.

    1) Don't buy anything until you've done a couple of inspections at your local association or with another beekeeper.

    The first time we opened up a hive I will admit, in my best Asterix, to thinking "@*!%%^". I got ...
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