Fair enough. The bee's gonna be pretty pissed at wasting its energy flying all the way over there just to find it's plastic.

Maybe you should have hand-dusted pollen and injected nectar onto/into each of the fake blossoms before posing for the photo.

This advice is offered entirely free of charge, with hearty congratulations on the book, Mark, and sincere gratitude for the first - and almost certainly last and only - time I have been mentioned in literary dispatches.

I now also feel guilty about having let the humor side of things slacken off of late. Must do better!