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Luke Lay

Beehive blitz may fill pollination gap as mite spreads

Danielle Munn, founder of 1000 Hives, is proud of the project's first beehives in an apple orchard. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

As growers prepare for a bee-killing parasite to wipe out entire populations of wild pollinators, one local is hoping to keep flowers in bloom one beehive at a time.

In South Australia's food bowl in the Adelaide Hills, wild swarms of bees are responsible for 75 to 95 per cent of pollination.

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