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Campaign to save the honey bees

I was watering the garden plants last weekend and was really pleased to see bees gathering pollen on a thyme bush – what seems like an increasingly rare sight these days.

At this time of year I’d normally be reminding my daughters not to run barefoot on the grass because of the number of bees gathering pollen in the clover. But not any more. Rarely is there a single bee to be seen anywhere in the garden – let alone to be stepped on!

So what has happened to the bees? Why have they become such a rare sight?

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