Best of First Up for Tuesday 13 October

In today's pod: after their own winter lockdown of sorts New Zealand's bees are getting busy again, we hear why springtime is the bees' knees; we speak to a journalist who's investigation revealed how the US military has contaminated the Pacific with toxic substances; after months of drought in Auckland, water restrictions have finally been eased for commercial users and 80-year-old Roderick Aldridge tells us why he's going to be voting "Yes" in the upcoming cannabis referendum