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Scientists had long believed that England’s indigenous strain of wild honeybee had been wiped out many years ago, as a result of competition with imported non-native strains and species of bee and, as the final agent of annihilation, the varroa mite , a decimating species of tiny parasitic arachnid that attacks and feeds upon honeybees, and which arrived in mainland Britain in 1992. In comparison with the domesticated honeybees maintained in hives

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