Do they use it medicinally? Treatment for nosema? Indulge on winter mornings, rain falling outside? Use when the hive weakens, those last weeks of dwindling, small cluster, the chill creeping in? Are there bee doctors, prescribing the right pollen for sickness or depression?
Some dark-red and wine-purple poppies buzz with three bees at a time, while the morning haze still hangs over the grass.
