Saga of the Mason Bee
- The ancient mason bee, she darts, she stops, she loops then she’s quiet.
- She checks carefully every hole
- In seconds she seems to know
- She sticks her head in the nest
- And in she goes
- She works.
- She lays a wonderful egg or two every day of every seven day week
- When she leaves her nest, she explodes from the tube
- She flies straight, true like a bullet fired from a gun
- Back to the garden and the flowering plum
- In a weeks time, a tube filled
- She lives 7 weeks and dies
- She rarely stings, she is fleet of wing, she is uncatchable
- If approached, she flys away, she is so stealth
- 11 months develop her eggs into larvae then pupa
- At 50 degrees, emerge
- Many daughters choose pi day
- For over 28 million years
- 😀by John Bishop
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