In Issue 117

Issue 117: Dec 2015

In this issue

Practical Beekeeping – when beekeepers have to decide between life and death................. 3

Telling the Bees – how bees are helping prisoner rehabilitation..... 6

Apimondia 2015, South Korea – photo gallery...............................10

Factsheet: The importance of bees and other pollinators...........12

South Sudan’s first exports to the USA include 100% natural honey.16

US quilters fundraise for Bfd’s work in Ethiopia...........................16

Look ahead / Learn ahead...........17

Bookshelf.....................................18

Noticeboard.................................19

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Cover picture: Frame hives containing European Apis mellifera honey bees in DMZ – the de-militarised zone separating South and North Korea. Bees and beekeepers know no boundaries!

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