The nuances of beekeeping are part of the fun of doing it. Everything can matter to your success and the well-being of your bees.

Here is an example of beekeeping advice from 1781. W. Dyer wrote, regarding honey bees:

Set no cabbages before them, for should they fall in it is seldom or ever they can come out again, though they can walk upon glass, they cannot upon a cabbage leaf, and generally in the heart of cabbages there is water, wherefore the bees falling therein may be lost.²⁾W. Dyer, The apiary laid open, or, an advantageous treatise on the construction and use of retro-coupling bee boxes, {a new invention} also, plain instructions for the management of bees in general, respecting their preservation from cold, heat, enemies and hunger. A plain description of the queen, drone, and common honeybees, Tewksbury, England: W. Dyer, 1781.