Reminds me of a book by Stanislav Lem, 'the Invincible'. The alien in the book was a swarm of very small robot, maybe the people who tell the bees are thinking

Reminds me of a book by Stanislav Lem, 'the Invincible'. The alien in the book was a swarm of very small robot, maybe the people who tell the bees are thinking of them as some collective swarm intelligence, or something like that...