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Bee Buzz Box May 2025 Smite the Mite Part VI: Going Troppo

01/04/2025 Alan Wade Comments Off on Bee Buzz Box May 2025 Smite the Mite Part VI: Going Troppo

Image: Travel online (2025) Alan Wade Keith Garvey (1981) tells us how his Uncle Harry made short work of a giant Australian bush tick: I hurls the rum bottle and hits it [the tick] in the left […]

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Bee Buzz Box October 2024 Swipe the Mite Part I – The Mitey Drone Buster

01/04/2025 Alan Wade Comments Off on Bee Buzz Box October 2024 Swipe the Mite Part I – The Mitey Drone Buster

Alan Wade Another mighty drone buster The pestilent mite has arrived to stay and, while not quite here in the Australian Capital Territory and many parts of New South Wales, it has been creeping down […]

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