Bee Story Messy Goes to OKIDO

WHISTLES Let's ski-doodle, Okidoodle!

-# Messy goes to Okido

-Find out what you want to know

# Let's all go to Okido

# Okido, Okido!

# Messy goes to Okido

# All the things you want to know

# Come along and say hello

# Let's go see our friends... #

-Felix!

-# Okido... #

-Zoe!

-# Okido... #

-Zim, Zam, Zoom!

-# Okido

# Ba-barap, whoop-whoo!

# Messy goes to Okido

# Let's all go to Okido

# Find out what you want to know

# Messy goes to Okido! #

BIRDS SING AND DOGS BARK

A BEE BUZZES

Huh?

Woo!

Did you hear that?

It's like a tiny engine.

A tiny, invisible engine.

Huh. There, by the flowers.

No, it's on the flower.

Whoa!

Huh. Ah, it was a bee.

Hm? I wonder why bees like flowers so much?

When you need to know, go to Okido.

-Hello.

-Hello, Messy.

What's wrong?

-It's our plants.

-Well, they look OK.

Bushy, green,

lots of little yellow flowers.

That's the trouble.

There are lots of flowers on them...

But nothing else.

What else do you want on a plant?

Ice lollies?

MESSY LAUGHS Toothbrushes?

MESSY LAUGHS

Tomatoes.

Tomatoes?

Pfft! Tomatoes come from shops.

They don't grow plants.

Do they?

Yes, Messy!

If they are tomato plants they do.

Hm. So...

So where are they, then, all these tomatoes?

That's what we want to know.

The flowers should be turning into tomatoes by now.

But they are not

and we don't know why.

Hm.

I know. We can ask Farmer Fuddle.

He knows about plants.

MESSY WHISTLES

Let's ski-doodle, Okidoodle.

Hello, you lot.

Look at my bean plants.

Lots of flowers, no beans.

THEY GASP

It's the same all over Okido.

No strawberries.

No cherries.

-It the bees.

-The bees?

What have the bees got to do with it?

They've disappeared.

Maybe Zim, Zam and Zoom can help.

Have you seen my Buzzy Bot, Zim?

You're what, Zam?

Buzzy Bot.

ZOOM BLEEPS

Oh, don't tell me it's got out again.

Did you leave the window open, Zim?

ZOOM BLEEPS

Erm, it was a bit muggy in here.

What's a Buzzy Bot?

Ah, my latest invention.

It tracks the flight patterns of certain pollinating

-insects in order to...

-It's a robot bee.

Ooh. A robot bee?

-Can we see it?

-Oh, please, can we?

I'm afraid not.

Zim left the window open and it escaped.

Sorry.

Oh. I wonder if that has something to do with the missing bees.

The bees are missing?

That's a disaster.

But why? Why are bees so important?

Zoom.

Bees buzz around flowers collecting sweet sticky stuff called...

Woo! ..nectar that they use to feed their babies.

But while they're doing this,

powdery stuff called pollen

sticks to their bodies.

Ha-ha! Messy old bee.

No, no, no. That's the clever bit

because, when the bee moves on to the next flower,

some of the pollen rubs off

and that pollen helps the second flower

to make a seed, which will become a new flower or plant.

ALL: Wow.

So, does that mean tomatoes are seeds, then?

Well, tomatoes are fruit and have seeds inside them.

Like beans?

And socks.

Socks haven't got seeds inside them, Messy.

No?

-No.

-So where do all the sock trees come from, then, eh?

Tell me that.

Oh, Messy.

Look.

It's a worker bee.

Worker bees are the ones that collect all the pollen.

She looks like she's trying to tell us something.

What's she doing?

She's dancing.

It's how bees talk to each other.

ZAM MUMBLES

Yes, yes, yes. She wants us to follow her.

-We are going to the hive.

-ALL: Yeah!

We've arrived at the hive.

Now, put these on, everybody.

Huh? What are they for?

To protect you.

Bees can sting sometimes, if they are startled.

Stand back, everyone. I'll deal with this.

Anyone at home?

DOORBELL BUZZES

There's no-one here.

BEE MUMBLES

Oh, no. Oh, dear.

Apparently, some huge mechanical bee came along...

THEY GASP

..and led the queen and all the bees away to the forest,

leaving just this one worker bee to look after the hive.

And the hive needs lots of worker bees to work properly.

Oh, so that's what happened to my Buzzy Bot.

We'd better go and find them.

Ah! There.

ZOOM BLEEPS

Hey, look. The bees.

-Your Majesty.

-It's the queen bee.

She is the most important bee in the hive.

Ah!

The queen bee!

Balabalaboomboom.

QUEEN BEE BUZZES

Ah, yes.

It seems that the Buzzy Bot told the queen bee

that there was more nectar here.

And when the queen leaves the hive,

so do all the other bees.

And now they can't find their way home.

But the Buzzy Bot was wrong.

There aren't any flowers for them here, so they can't collect nectar.

All their babies must be hungry.

And nobody in Okido has got any vegetables or fruit.

Where is the Buzzy Bot?

-BUZZY BOT:

-Buzzy Bot. Buzzy Bot.

ALL: Wow!

Buzzy Bot. There you are.

-Hello.

-Buzzy Bot, where have you been?

Why did you lead the queen and her bees away from their hive?

Buzzy Bot thought there was nectar in the forest

but then Buzzy Bot got lost.

Buzzy Bot sorry.

Oh, that's OK, Buzzy Bot. Don't worry.

Buzzy Bot just wanted to be a real bee.

But you're a Buzzy Bot.

You're special.

I'm special?

Yes. You are very special.

And if you lead the queen bee and bees home,

Zim will ask the queen if you can be her special helper,

-won't you, Zim?

-Mm.

ZIM MUMBLES

QUEEN BEE BUZZES

Yes, the queen agrees.

OK, let's go.

ALL: Hooray!

Here they come!

QUEEN AND BUZZY BOT BUZZ

Well done, Buzzy Bot.

You're now part of the hive.

Yippee. Thank you. Bzzz.

Oh, phew.

Hello again, bees. I missed you.

Ah, the bees are back.

-ALL:

-The bees!

-Hooray!

QUEEN BEE BUZZES

It was nothing, Your Majesty.

We're glad to have been of service.

ALL: Your Majesty.

A pleasure doing buzziness with you.

Right, time for us to check our tomato plants.

And time for me to buzz off home.

Ha-ha! Buzz. I said "buzz".

ALL: Bye, Messy.

BEE BUZZES

Hello, little bee.

Now I know why you like flowers so much.

Oops. I forgot.

This is how bees talk.

MESSY BUZZES

Bye.

Balabalaboomboom!