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creating a buzz

OST GARDENERS LOVE BEES, but my husband really, REALLY loves bees. It’s a love affair that has spanned a decade now, and has weathered good seasons and poor seasons, hive beetle and countless stings – including to rather sensitive parts, due to a hole in his bee suit. (Now repaired.) Adam has 14 hives and watches them closely in winter, even more closely in summer, and can talk for

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