Propolis prediction

A Central Australian beekeeper is predicting much-needed heavy rains -- his bees are sealing up their hives with lots of propolis.

Four years ago bees in the region went into a frenzy, collecting food and sealing up hives with a natural material called propolis.

The area measured around 600 millimetres of rain during the following summer and autumn.

Beekeeper Keith Brooke reckons the signs are there again, for more than 300 millimetres in the next few months.