Hi Jim, wild bananas do have seeds, but I guess you are referring to the domesticated varieties of banana, in which the seeds have been cultivated away? Many years ago I bought bananas while travelling by train through Java, Indonesia and those small bananas had many surprisingly large dark brown seeds in them.

Well you learn something every day!
Not sure about the sugars – when I first added the banana the bees hopped straight onto it and started nibbling away at it but whether that was just in order to dismantle and remove it or ingest and digest it I don’t know.

Very interesting about chalkbrood. I suppose the banana sugars feed the bees too…