Bearding Bees

It has been hot and muggy and these honeybees are trying to cool off in front of their hive.This is normal behavior most often observed in robust hives and there's a lot of bees still in the hive working on nectar drying.  I'm going to try to get a sharper version of this--I was about 3 feet from the hive and was wearing no protective gear and the light was fairly dim.  At this time of the morning, all the foragers are present and when in the hive, they function as guards so the odds of getting tagged are quite high.  The hives all smell buttery because they are curing goldenrod nectar. K5 IIs 180mm f3.5 (1/60sec at f8, ISO 800)....................Jim