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The Importance of BEEing a BEE

Importance of beeing a BEE Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey and beeswax Bees are a monophyletic lineage Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea and are...

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Common Kingfisher

Kingfisher - Images by CRUSH Photography© The female is identical in appearance to the male except that her lower mandible is orange-red with a black tip.

Muntjac – known as the Barking Deer

Muntjac It is anticipated that muntjac may soon become the most numerous species of deer in England and may have also crossed the border into Scotland with a couple of specimens even appearing in Northern Ireland in 2009; they have been spotted in the Republic of Ireland in 2010, almost certainly having reached there with...

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