Bees are never alone. Each is many, and they delight in tricking the observer. How many times has a single bee lost in your room suddenly multiplied to six or seven, even though all the windows are closed, and mouse vents along the floor or behind the refrigerator definitely sealed with plaster and poison? These supernatural invaders practice an entertaining magic organized into certain genres; said genres also have a certain hierarchical ranking among members of the bee-haunt trade (actually, the multiplication trick isn't much thought of in these bee guilds, considered as about the rough equivalent of a card or scarf trick). Here you can see a relatively less skilled set of bees (actually a single bee tricking your eye) showing how, through simple acrobatics, it is possible to generate hexagons and other multiples.     He had heard that these special bees were both plague-proof, and abundant producers of an unusually clear honey.