The term "attendants" didn't come from anyone joking around in this thread. The linked USPS information page uses the word because it's what beekeepers call the

The term "attendants" didn't come from anyone joking around in this thread. The linked USPS information page uses the word because it's what beekeepers call them: > Monday morning myth: attendants must be removed from queen cages > Many beekeepers believe that you must remove attendant bees from queen shipping cages before you introduce a caged queen into a hive. They believe the queen will more likely be killed by the receiving hive if both the attendants and the queen have a foreign odor. > This simply is not true. If you install the caged queen properly, the attendants will cause no problem. Before long the queen’s pheromone will circulate throughout the hive. All the bees—as well as the attendants—will then smell the same. https://honeybeesuite.com/monday-morning-myth-attendants-must-be-removed/ https://honeybeesuite.com/monday-morning-myth-attendants-mus...