Biosecurity isn’t typically very funny, but please, I beg of you, commit a few moments to watching this discussion at the Australian Senate about honeybee breeding. The year is 2016, and a lot of people at the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee are about to learn that bees explode when they mate. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The discussion is part of an investigation into the biosecurity risks of importing bee semen into Australia. The substance doesn’t arrive in-bee, but in vials, prompting NSW Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan to ask, “Do you have to kill the bee to get the semen? How do you get the semen out of the bee?”

"So, that's the most common question we get asked, Senator,

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