The bees keep a clean house

Apparently in a wind last night the pine cone in the foreground blew off of a tree and bounced off of the front porch of the beehive. When it did, a piece of the pine cone stayed on the front porch while the cone rolled onto the deck.







The bees were quite disturbed by this - I watched this morning while several of them worked like ants to move the big pinecone piece off of their front porch.
When I returned from work today, the pine cone piece was on the deck in front of the hive. The bees succeeded in cleaning house.