Check out the amount of pollen that this bee has already collected!
Honey bees are great pollinators, they are! My lament at this point of time is that we have these:
More of the corn plants are starting to look like this – fattening cobs with clumps of silks dangling out, waiting for pollen to fall from the tassels above.
By right, pollen is supposed to be drifting down from the tassels swaying above the cobs. I don’t know how successfully this has been happening, because this has been happening:
The bees really seem to love the corn plants, because no matter what time of day I’ve visited the plants, there are at least two bees busily buzzing from plant to plant, stripping away pollen. Aiyo… 
We’ll probably end up with something like this:
This odd plant grew less than two feet high and grew a cob at the top, with no tassels. I guess it’s an anomaly…
I’m expecting skinny cobs, because I reckon the bees have been too effective in collecting the pollen…
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