Calling Spruce - strange bee behaviour

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    This is probably one for our bee expert. Yesterday there were two incidents of bees starting to form hives on a traffic light in two different towns 65 km apart, here in the Basque Country. It was a really hot day - about 30ºC, after weeks of cold, wet weather. Of course the bees were carefully removed and handed over to bee-keepers. But I just wondered if there's an explanation for this behaviour. :spinning:
     
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      waiting for the green man :dunno:
       
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        Spruce,
        can you help us please?
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          Maybe it was a heat 'thing'.....:dunno:...interesting though.....
           
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            Swarming , and they all waited for the weather to improve

            " traffic light" JUST A COINCIDENCE.

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              Thought you were going to come up with some "Bees seeing infra Red or Ultra Green & Amber" then :snork:
               
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                I once saw a bumblebee trying to dock with the round brake light of a bus.
                 
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                  ...as long as they don't nest on my darling turquoise cinquecento :spinning:...
                   
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                  You've got a Turquoise 500? :)
                   
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                  Oh yes! - the old squarish type / I was mainly taken by the colour.
                   
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