In a message dated 08/01/2009 00:44:35 GMT Standard Time,  
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I  understand that older beekeepers have the reputation to be slightly deaf 
and  this may explain the above comment.


This has been worrying me for some time. At gatherings of beekeepers an  
amazingly high proportion seem to be wearing hearing aids. Is this because of  
some as yet unrecorded side effect of bee-stings or of honey consumption or is  
it that beekeepers tend to live longer than most folk and thus display evidence 
 of the aging process?
 
Chris
 

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