Bruce Stewart

A few weeks ago, on a warm summer’s morning, I was checking the ripening corn in our back yard vege patch and  heard the sound of many bees busily buzzing around the tassals on the two metre tall corn plants. Up to five bees at a time on individual plants were emthusiastically collecting nectar with their proboscises and absorbing it into their special honey sac in their bodies and then transporting it back to the hive.  

With a lifespan of only six or seven weeks, the bees have a lot of work to