Doebel is a biology professor at George Washington University. He is in charge of the school’s bee lab, which recently added several hives that produce honey for the Founding Farmers restaurant. Do bees have any personality?

Yes, they do! And I do not have the latest wisdom on them, but there are some bees that feel you intruded [on them] and once you’re done with the work, they can follow you for hundreds of feet, still buzzing around. Others, you can just have crawl on your fingers and watch them, and they are truly docile and happy and don’t show any of that stuff.

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