Bumblebees are stealing pollen from my corn plants

[R. Mills]

Help! I had this problem last year to. Last year, at least 100 bumble bees each and every day attacked all of my corns tassels, stealing the pollen to feed their babies. ( it took an exaustive amount of research to find this all out). Short of pesticide dusts, what can I do. I am afraid the pesticide dusts will get absorbed into the pollens and contaminate the corn crop. Last year I watched helplessly, This years corn crop is really looking strong so far.
Please help
Thanks

[beautiful gardener]

i would recomend planting flowers

[DaveB]

I confess to being a little confused by this, can I ask how specifically the bees are damaging your corn tassles?

Sure bees take pollen as it's a good source of protein for their young. And I suspect that corn is wind pollinated naturally but bees going from one to the other will surely help?

Are you worried about protein loss?

Dave

[IzzyM]

Aren't bumble bees protected in law? They should be. There is apparently a world-wide shortage of bees and growers desperately need them to pollinate flowers. They don't do any harm to plants so please don't kill them.