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Tue 08 Aug 2010Spoonful of sugar may make honey bees' greatest destroyer back down
SOME BEEKEEPERS are sprinkling their honey bees with caster sugar to defeat the biggest threat to Irish honey bees, the varroa mite.
The bees lick it off their companions and the process causes great excitement in the hive, with the result that the mites fall off the bees and get disturbed by the vibrations.
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