The Flowers and the Trees How to Feed the Bees When the eaves start dripping and the river crackles and flows beneath its thinning frozen membrane, the bees are called out of hiding. They are responding to perhaps the same urges taunting the rest of nature’s creatures who spend the winter under cover: The mysterious Knowing. The inherent knowing that the cold days are over, the sun’s angle has changed, the frogs are hatching. Probably it’s simply hunger which drives them out.