>      Do bees get to know their keepers?
>
> Has anyone observed a colony react differently to an
> inspector or knowledgeable visitor (someone who knows
> their way around)?
>

Reply:

 While working at an Agricultural college in Hampshire UK there was a
particular worker who was stung each time he got out of the truck, before he
started work with the bees. The students always claimed they were stung more
working with him than with the rest of us.

On the last day of his employment he was stung under one eye while walking
across the yard, ten minutes later was stung under the other eye.

He was not a enthusiastic beekeeper during his last six months, perhaps the
bees could sense aggression, or perhaps he was unlucky?

Regards Phil Moore
Shropshire UK