In last week's edition you have a review of a delightful children's book called 'The Grumble Bee” and your reviewer Jean Bennett recounts how Glib collects pollen, he is indeed a busy little bee.
I hate to be a curmudgeonly kill-joy, but Glib is obviously a male bee and therefore would not collect pollen as it is the female bee who collects the nectar and pollen and who does all the work in the hive including feeding the drones.
The drones are there to mate with the queen, they are consorts-in-waiting! Perhaps Glib is a girl!
I can see that the moral of the book is that we can succeed with the determination to do so and for that it has great value.
My apologies for being a pedantic spoilsport!

Robin Bishop, Tauranga.