Ick. Ick. Ick. You are a crazy man for dealing with those bastardly, yet necessary animals.

For a bee idiot, can you tell me what they ARE doing versus what they SHOULD be doing?

i think there was an Outer Limits like that Brad... where they fashioned the faces from the sand in order to fool us silly Humans.

I'd watch out... they might be monitoring your blog...

Maybe you just have really creative bees.  Bees that want to think outside the box?

Well it's technically my fault they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing. I was supposed to put in frames in the box and they would build on that. However, I was out of town a lot recently and very busy when I wasn't and didn't get the frames in. As a result, they built however they wanted which, as you can see, is that.

An a related note, for the first time in a long time, I had to shoo a bee off me. I was workign outside and he landed on my hand. I was more worried about him losing his stinger than getting stung. Last I saw, the bee was doing fine.