LoL! yeah, not many outhouse opportunities when it is a white desolate landscape for months on end. When it is warm enough for flight, it rains poop all across in the bee yard area, literally. Everything, and I mean everything, gets splattered. No square inch is spared. It rains down, it rains sideways, it rains thisaway and it rains thataway. Often wondering - how did she possibly manage to paint that there at that angle?! Those are the days to stay out of the yard and go do other things. Only folks in the north or those who winter colonies indoors will truly understand that. No, the bees are not sick. Yes, it is a normal event - which as weird as it sounds, we really look forward to!