Telling The Bees

[Martin H]

According to the Mail Online, the Queen's Beekeeper has now told the Queen's bees the sad news.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-new-boss.html

I never knew this was a thing!

Every day's a schoolday.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees

[Nicos]

Well I never! Never knew anything about that custom.
Very interesting - thanks for sharing

[seasprout]

I had heard of this, it popped
up in an episode of Midsommer murder years ago.

[Bren In Pots]

I remember something about this, I must have been about 14 or 15 when a friends Dad died and they tied ribbons on the hives I never knew why though.

[nick the grief]

I thought you tapped 9 times and told the bees the name of the person who'd died ... the thing with a lot of these traditions theres a kernal of truth with them as daft as it sounds

[mothhawk]

Rudyard Kipling was a beekeeper. He wrote a poem, "The Bee-Boy's Song", about telling the bees.

https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_beeboy.htm