The bees are ecstatic because they can fly out into the world and relieve themselves, carry out the dead and probably (just to anthropomorphize them) enjoy their aliveness in the world. I am ecstatic because my bees (at least the ones at home are ALIVE).
You can see the bees both outside of and under the Billy Davis robber screen. There are hundreds of them.
They also use times like this to take out the dead. You can't tell in the photo below that there are both dead and alive bees in it but there are at least five live bees managing the body count on the concrete around my hive.
I wrote my friend Tom who has the Bill Owens' cut out hives in his yard. Hopefully he'll write back that those bees are flying as well.
HOORAY - but not to rain on my own parade, Atlanta's winter has really just begun and we often have much cold weather in March, so my hives are not out of the woods/through the winter yet.
My friend Tom called and the bees at his house are flying - so Stonehurst, the Bill Owens' hives at Tom's house and my bees are flying. I didn't hear from Sebastian but hopefully the bees are alive there as well.
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