Picture this: Peter Rae, Bee

Updated December 29 2014 - 11:08am, first published 10:15am

That year had an unusually warm spring, and the pollen count and wind levels were wreaking havoc on Australian noses. Listening to hay-fever stories blare from his car radio, Peter Rae had knocked off work early and went for a drive through Centennial Park. He stopped in a field of yellow flowers.  He lay down flat in the bloom. As swarms of bees hungrily collected the pollen, he recognised another end of the scale – the benefits of a pollen-heavy spring for the bees. He lay stretched in the flowerbed for 40 minutes, waiting for a bee to land on a flower.

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