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Bees In Action At Gill’s!

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Because we have a lot of flowers and reservoirs of water at Gill’s, we also have a wonderfully large population of butterflies, dragonflies and bees.

This past 4th of July, I walked into our accounting office and found 8 bees buzzing around our ceiling fluorescent lights. I had never seen so many bees in our office and honestly, wasn’t quite sure what to do. Our buyer, Debbie walked in and immediately had the solution. She directed me to turn off all the lights & close the doors to get the room as dark as possible. Then we opened a window that had good natural light coming from outdoors and the bees, within seconds, began filing out through the window one by one.

I was so happy and amazed at how smart they were. Another example of the WONDERS OF NATURE!!

-Sally

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  1. J Williams says

    I love my bees, while most shoo them away, I let them rest on my arms (they need a break from time to time) or any nearby perch, so they can have a reprieve from all their efforts…mine don’t sting they just want a rest. Cheers! Jamie

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