Nature-based Beekeeping Skeps and the social life of

and the social life of Charles Butler

Charles Butler had a deep curiosity about the natural world and recorded his discoveries methodically

or of honey that granulates quickly

and the hive’s uninvited invaders

Graham Kingham is a retired mechanical quality engineer who keeps a few hives in Devon

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