There were three things even Aristotle couldn’t get his head around, and one was the work of the bee
It may come as a surprise to some — as it was to me — to learn that honeybees have their own calendar. They forage for different kinds of pollen and nectar at different times of the year, they swarm at different times to set up new hives and, come mid-August, the female worker bees get rid of the male drones who by that stage are layabouts, doing nothing to pay for their keep.
According to a beekeeper friend of mine in Co Kilkenny, beekeepers often notice that around now the worker bees are evicting drones from the hive “sometimes with no mercy” to reduce the demands on their winter reserves.
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