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In 2007, about one third of the US domesticated bee population was wiped out as a result of a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), with some commercial hive owners losing up to 90% of their bees.
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Another recommended driving nails through plywood, then laying the plywood around the hive, nail-side up.
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Europeans have lived stacked up, like bees in a hive, for generations.
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Law firm Olswang has signed up to the project and has a bee hive on its roof and another on a terrace in Holborn.
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Yet despite their limitations, slums are also a hive of business activity, full of cottage industries that have sprung up organically, without assistance from the local government, the banking sector, or any part of the formal economy.
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When the bees walk through the trap they pick up some of the powder which is then spread around the hive.
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