They ordered new bees, which they had air-freighted from Australia, and new queens, which were flown in from Hawaii.

NEWYORKER: Stung

"The potential implications of this new research for honey-bees and their interactions with varroa mites and wax moth larvae will need to be looked at in more detail, but the initial results look really interesting, " said Giles Budge, senior researcher with the UK's National Bee Unit.

BBC: Honey-bees found to have bite that stuns

Gee-Bees are free to dismiss new music, but let's remember they do so not because they know something about music we don't.

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