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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Grumpmeister on March 01, 2010, 08:22:28 PM
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After all, what could possibly go wrong? lol:
Urban beekeeping could be vital in helping reverse a decline in honeybees, the Co-operative Group has claimed.
The company, which has 600 hives on land around the UK, is rolling out a scheme to encourage more people to keep hives in towns and cities.
It began training budding beekeepers on allotments in Manchester in 2009.
Now the Plan Bee scheme, which the firm hopes can boost honeybee numbers, is being rolled out to other areas of the city as well as London and Inverness.
The Co-operative is spending an extra ?225,000 on the project with the aim of getting 300 new beekeepers in cities.
Would-be beekeepers are sent on a free two-day course and, if they are interested, are provided with free kit, bees and an easy-to-use plastic "beehaus" hive.
The new Plan Bee funding will also finance more research into the cause of declining honeybee populations in the UK.
Paul Monaghan, head of social goals at the Co-operative, said: "Nature's number one pollinating machine appears to be breaking down and no one knows for sure why.
"Urban beekeeping is becoming increasingly popular and could be a vital tool in the reverse of honeybee decline in the UK.
"Through our urban beekeeper projects we want to show people that you don't have to have acres of land to take up beekeeping."
Last year the government's conservation agency Natural England urged people in towns and cities to keep bees in their gardens to counter declining honeybee populations.
They face a growing number of threats including pests and diseases such as the varroa mite and a lack of habitat providing food sources such as wild flowers.
Experts believe the honeybee population halved in England between 1985 and 2005, the Co-operative said.
Across the UK, numbers of honeybee colonies have fallen by between 6.7% and almost 12% a year over the past three years, according to the government.
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Sounds perfect but I wont drone on about it redface:
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Would it give you a buzz then...? rubschin:
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A stinging rebuke might be more appropriate
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it will take a lotta nectar keep this thread going. At least that's the the felling hive got redface:
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it will take a lotta nectar keep this thread going. At least that's the the felling hive got redface:
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Shall we hive it off into the archives then...? rubschin:
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I don't know, I go AWOL for a few hours, come back and find you bumbling about making swarms of bad jokes. Now buzz off the lot of you this has the makings of a top flight thread.
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OK Honey
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OK Honey
She is sweet isn't she...?
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Floats like a butterfly...stings like bee
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I'm still combing my mind for more puns
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I'm still combing my mind for more puns
I'm sure we can smoke some out... rubschin:
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and then bee waxing lyrical about them
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But not to keep droning on... noooo:
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noooo: There is no hope, I'm making a beeline for the door.
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noooo: There is no hope, I'm making a beeline for the door.
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Like a big queen.... noooo:
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Noo more like a piss apiarists.
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Noo more like a piss apiarists.
drumroll:
You can swarm off now then...
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to the strains of Bee-thoven 9th
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and later reincarnated in Bee-tlejuice
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Pooh! Glad thats all over.
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There have been some terrible puns eh Darwin?
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Pooh! Glad thats all over.
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Just bee calm, it will all soon bee bee-hind us, a bit bee-lated maybee, but hey
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Buzz off evil:
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Shan't
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Buzz off evil:
Is everyone beeing nasty you Nick? whistle: