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Creating a buzz in the Welsh countryside.


HAYSTACKS Haystacks can be:
  • Haystacks (Monet), a series of paintings by Claude Monet.
  • Haystacks (Lake District), a mountain in England.
See also:
  • Haystack
 have been turned into an art form by a farmer who used his wheat sculpture to highlight the plight of the threatened Welsh honey bee.

Alex Jamieson, from Carmarthen, collected pounds 2,000 after being adjudged the Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff.  winner of this year's Weetabix Wheat Art competition.

Winning regional sculptures included a lion, the Loch Ness monster Loch Ness monster

“Nessie”; sea serpent said to inhabit Loch Ness. [Scot. Folklore: Wallechinsky, 443]

See : Monsters


Loch Ness monster

supposed sea serpent dwelling in lake. [Scot. Hist.
, Humpty Dumpty and Noah's Ark.

Top of the pile was a wooly wool·y  
adj. & n.
Variant of woolly.

Adj. 1. wooly - having a fluffy character or appearance
flocculent, woolly

soft - yielding readily to pressure or weight

2.
 mammoth created by Paul Grant from Boston, Lincolnshire.

But there was no prize was one of this year's stand-out installations, a 30ft dinosaur called Tyranna-Strawous Rex built by Richard Dod and his friend Liam Cammock at Bryn Carrog Farm, Rhuddlan.

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You wouldn't want to get stung by this giant-sized honey bee
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Publication:Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date:Nov 3, 2009
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