Flight of the bumblebee

Zooming in like a  mouse on wings, a bumblebee prepares to gorge on a favourite food source: tree lucerne. Cast in popular imagination as quaint, cumbersome and" of no use because they don't make honey," the bumblebee's virtues as a tireless and effective pollinator are only now being appreciated and put tp work. Far from being a droning bumpkin which somehow defies the laws of gravity, the bumblebee is being heralded as the gardener's true friend.