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'Hive' to boost bee-keeping
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-08-06 09:15

A new plastic beehive was launched in Britain yesterday to encourage people to keep bees in their gardens or on rooftops to help boost declining honeybee populations.

The bees buzzed in and out of the postbox-like slot in the grey and yellow "beehaus" on the roof of conservation agency Natural England's London offices.

The agency's chief scientist Tom Tew said if more urban residents kept honeybees, it would increase the insects' numbers and make them more resilient to attacks from disease and pests that threaten their survival.