Bees land, heavily loaded with full honey bladder and yellow pollen panties, and pass the sweet juice to their sisters, the hive bees, who then store it in the honey cells. Foreign bees try to pass through the flight hole, but are prevented by the guards from entering the hive. Young bees fly in carefully and make only small rounds at first, but soon fly longer and longer distances. There are young bees with dense fur and old worn down ones that have hardly any hair on their back.

Drones are much bigger than their sisters, have no sting, and are let into every beehive, i.e. also into foreign ones.

Every day in the afternoon, vast numbers of bees gather for the so-called foreplay flight, the meaning of which has not been clarified until today. It is believed to have something to do with the mating flight of the queen.

Dead bees are carried from the hive by their sisters and set down at some distance. Wasps are always present and eat the dead bees. What the wasps leave behind is eaten by fire bugs.

The garden beekeeper can sit for hours on a chair in front of the flight hole and watch the hustle and bustle, in close contact with nature. This activity, or better this state, comes very close to meditation.