There's more to this story than just telling the bees, but this is regional as well.
I grew up on a family cattle farm. We had a tradition of telling the breeder bull about all the family goings on, so he could be comfortable knowing we had it all under control.
It was partially superstition and partially just so the bulls we used never got aggressive with family. You'd take him a bucket of corn or sweet feed and then tell him the bullshit that was going on.
Had a hard time parsing this, assumed "breeder" was the role of a human ranch hand, and you were telling them about family trivialities ("bull") so they felt included and soothed. Theory really fell apart around the time you started giving them corn and "sweet feed".
I grew up on a family cattle farm. We had a tradition of telling the breeder bull about all the family goings on, so he could be comfortable knowing we had it all under control.
It was partially superstition and partially just so the bulls we used never got aggressive with family. You'd take him a bucket of corn or sweet feed and then tell him the bullshit that was going on.