That was my thinking as well, the light disturbed the bees to move the honey to a less exposed place. But I think it’s related to something else.
All good @busso 
Guess that’s just one of the hard things about joking via text 
p.s. I think when you replied to me, you thought I was asking about the first video, when in fact I had responded to the second video.
And yes I am under 70, so I didn’t get it 
The person in tag in my day was called “it / your it”
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Slapped wrists, @Faroe! 
You obviously spent too much time playing tag, and not enough studying grammar! 
You’re it!! You are saying “you are it”. The correct contraction of “you are” is “you’re”. So there. OK, time for me to stop making trouble again. Just drawing the fire away from @busso for a bit. 
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I found this out also when I took my flow box off with the flow frames and left it in my garage. I went in the house for supper (about 15mins) and went back to the garage to find about a thousand bees inside taking their honey and nectar back. 
It was an experience and definitely learned how fast they can find resources. Amazing.
Funny thing was, all my keeping equipment was in the garage. I had to slowly make my way in with the bees and suit up. I moved everything outside and waited until night time, when they all went back to the hive, to clean up
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I did a similar thing a few weeks ago. Our Arnia hive scale showed that our nectar flow was decreasing. I had the Flow super on the hive, with a traditional medium on top. The bees had done zero work in the medium, and we had drained 4 of the 6 Flow frames. So I took the medium off. My hubby moved it into the utility room, intending to take it down to the garage.
The next day, our cleaner arrived, and she irons clothes for us in the utility room. Well, I thought hot iron plus wax and propolis might not be the best mix. So, I put it outside the back door. Within minutes, dozens of bees were visiting. I wondered why. No nectar/honey. Closer study showed that they were striping the propolis off the box! Fascinating. It is now safely in the garage behind closed doors. 
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I’m afraid I’m going on ff topic for a bit although this did all happen in the last 12 hours just not in the super…
Yesterday, I observed hundreds of bees flying around an old apricot tree out back. It’s winter here and seasons are a little curious at the moment, there is no blossom on the tree yet and when it does blossom it’s a hum of activity. There are in fact still leaves on it… It got me wondering what the bees were doing. Nearly every bee was bringing pollen back to the hives at the time.
My thoughts were that perhaps this time last year the tree was blossoming and they were returning from memory but all last years bees would be in Beaven by now. Then the tree must have a smell that is drawing the bees attention, perhaps they are sourcing gum for propolis then? Or, I’ve just had a thought but I’ll need to do some investigation before I share.
Maybe I should have put this in the ‘old man musings’ thread but I’m not old… 
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Most likely I would think.
Apricot trees exude gum from any wound and is a possible source of propolis.
If you have just pruned your fruit trees, as I intend to do Monday then certainly there will be plenty of sap and gum. available.
With another off topic did you catch this http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-12/aquaponics-in-the-outback/8696414
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No I havnt pruned it yet my plan was to cut it down as the fruit fly decimates them especially now I’m organic. Tried all the Eco products and the just don’t compare with the nasty ones. Yes I did see that article, he’s a member of the AP forum I’m on. Hopefully he doesn’t swim naked with the fish in the hotel like he did with his last project.
By the way I saw your humour in the above post but like the others you’re it.
Anyway back to the topic. 
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