I'll admit that sometimes my imagination gets the better of me, but I could swear that our bees come looking for me when they've got important news to share. More than once I've been at some out-of-the-way location on our property when a few of our honey bees will noisily appear just in time for me to witness a swarm taking off from one of our hives. Last summer I got nailed upside the head by one of our resident Apis mellifera foragers as I walked across our back yard. Needless to say, this got my attention and I looked around to see what sort of "message" I was being sent. Sure enough, two of the hives in our apiary looked like they had turned themselves inside out with heavy bearding across the front of both deep supers and around the upper entrance of the medium honey super I'd recently added on.
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