[2][3] The story was adapted as an episode of the television series Tales of the Unexpected in 1980, including Timothy West and Susan George as the couple.
Albert, a beekeeper, devises the novel solution of adding royal jelly, used to make bee larvae grow, to the baby's milk.
Albert admits to putting royal jelly in their daughter's milk, and Mabel asks him to stop.
Finally Albert admits that he himself ate royal jelly in an effort to increase his fertility, which obviously worked as their daughter was conceived soon after.
Mabel begins to realise how much her husband resembles a gigantic bee, and how their daughter looks like a large grub.