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Honeybees in Britain
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-11-26 11:28
 
Beekeeper Clive Joyce smokes a hive at The National Beekeeping Centre in Stoneleigh, central England, November 21, 2008. Where in the United States, fruit farmers pay to have bees trucked thousands of miles to pollinate their crops and in parts of China, humans with feather dusters have taken on the task, in Britain most bees go nature's way. Britons have a deep nostalgia for home-grown honey and its associations with an ordered rural lifestyle. But here, too, the honey bee population is dwindling. Picture taken November 21, 2008. [Agencies]