After watching small creatures for awhile (insects/fish/birds), one will become rather aware there is a lot more going on than first assumed. Bee hives in part

After watching small creatures for awhile (insects/fish/birds), one will become rather aware there is a lot more going on than first assumed. Bee hives in particular have collective temperaments, and being around a group everyday for awhile changes how they perceive your presence. For example, those who carelessly crush too many workers, will have their body odor associated with a threat. Accordingly, one may find your proximity to the hives will not be tolerated for the season. There were studies which tried to inject fake food-source location data into bee dances, and it showed even simple individual insects could distinguish nonsense. It is arrogant to apply our own emotional constructs onto these creatures, but one should certainly respect the fact they are alive and understand the world in their own way. Note, the bees can teach you a lot about resource management in complex distributed systems. In a way, the 1U rack standard could be seen as the IT hive cell structure. "Bee" good to each other, =)