You’ve surely heard the story of the country mouse and the city mouse. It usually ends with the country mouse happily returned to the simple comforts of rural life following a visit with its city cousin and a too-close encounter with a house cat. The moral: urban luxuries aren’t worth urban hassles and dangers.

Well, here’s a new story about country bees and city bees, and this time the moral favors the latter, and it’s not even a moral; it’s science.