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
james says
My thought would be morning sun afternoon shade in hot South Texas.
Dimitri says
What kind of a bee is this? I have both Apis mellifera and cerana, but they don’t look like this. This bee is black and white.