Bees are never alone. Each is many, and they delight in tricking the observer. How many times has a seule abeille perdu in your pièce suddenly multiplied to six or seven, even though all the windows are closed, and mouse vents along the sol 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 abeille guilds, considered as about the rough equivalent of a card or scarf trick). Here you can see a relatively less skilled set of abeille (actually a seule abeille tricking your yeux ) showing how, through simple acrobatics, it is possible to generate hexagons and other multiples.
Il avait entendu dire que ces abeilles-là étaient immunisées contre la maladie, et produisaient en abondance un miel rare très clair.