Queen of The Sun
Rating: 6/10
This doco is about bees.
Well, more specifically, it's about the crisis facing bees - and the colourful characters who look after them.
Subtitled "What are the bees telling us?", it looks at how the species of honey bees is suffering a massive loss and how there are very real and serious implications for us.
Colony Collapse Disorder is currently running rife within the bee world; in case you've never heard of this phenomenon, it's where the bees flee their hive, leave the honey and the food, never to return.
It's a potentially devastating phenomenon and one which could ravage our way of life.
This doco takes a look at that - and also takes into the strange eclectic world of the beekeeper. There's some characters in this - including the French enthusiast who strokes the bees in the hive with his moustache.
But that's the thing with a doco like this - you need the oddities to keep it alive.
While the science doesn't massively come to the forefront, what
does leap out from the screen is the colour and the extent to which
bees have - and continue to - permeate our lives. Gently
assuming and intelligently made, this doco is intriguing enough to
keep your attention throughout.
