New Zealand Building Economist is a mouthful to say
It naturally shortens to N-Z-Be-E in a day
But what does this mean phonetically?
Is there such a thing as a native NZ Bee?
NZ Native bees
30 pollinators in all
Please meet them now
Not one of them is tall
Lasioglossum
Only four varieties
4-8mm long
Our smallest of bees
Hylaeus yellow markings
On all seven types
A little bigger
than our Lasio-Mites
The Leioproctus 18
includes 17 All Blacks
The orange one is Fulvescens
A South Island Full Back
Mistaken for flies
I have to report
They do not make honey
of any sort
Their value is in pollinating
plants and trees
To grow timber and fruit
For the economy
But that’s 29,
not the 30 you say?
We have included ourselves
As Native Be-E’s all the way
Cost data our pollen for
Building trade rates
buzzing 50 years
Pollinating Estimates
Here’s an artist’s impression
By David Pearson, house painter
Of Leioproctus Fulvescens
On digital paper
Nice Poem!