Busy Bees

Bronwen Scott
3 min readApr 30, 2023

Industrious AF

Small black bee on a yellow flower.
Native bee gathering pollen from a flower in its last hurrah, Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland. © Bronwen Scott

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Hello.

I have an announcement.

It has stopped raining. For the first time in ten days, we have blue sky.

The rain has made the lawn go feral.

And in the fifteen minutes between the sun appearing from behind the rainclouds and the start of the…

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Bronwen Scott

Zoologist, writer, artist, museum fan, enjoying life in the tropical rainforest of Far North Queensland. She/her. Website: bronwenscott.com