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Apologies for the long gap between postings; it’s been exam season at work, and I’ve not had much time to blog. The garden was buzzing with green-bottles yesterday, thanks to a combination of warm weather and overflowing brown bins. These flies tend to get a bit of a bad wrap, what with the spitting onto …