Going Round In Circles: What Could Bee Causing It? (3/3)

Listener Henrietta Broderick was out on the patio of her home in Co. Galway recently when she spotted something very unusual on the ground: a Honeybee walking around and around in tiny circles, as you can see in the video that she shot for us. As Henrietta tells us on Mooney Goes Wild (Mon. 18/05/26), at one point the bee stopped, excreted a drop of a mustard-yellow substance from its abdomen, then resumed its bizarre circling behaviour. What could have caused a bee to behave so strangely? For more, visit https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/mooney/2026/0518/1573903-mooney-goes-wild-monday-may-18th-2026/.