My bees realize a human precedes the sugar feed. Do they recognize me as an individual, I don?t know?
What amazes me is this: I approached a hive, looking at the bees on the entrance and see the bees fly straight towards my feet, then hover straight upwards towards my face checking my scent, sniffing for any scent of food. If I don?t have food, the bees return to the hive. If I have a bucket of sugar, I am followed.
If I approach a bucket full of feeding bees I have to be watchful as the bees will not hesitate to land on me or worse, inadvertently get up my sleeve.