With all the new and unfamiliar liturgical texts in use this Easter, you might not have noticed every tweak to the Exsultet. (After all, you probably didn't have to recite it.) But the sudden appearance of the "mother bees" at the very end probably caught your attention. If you're curious to know what that's all about, do check out this informative article by Rita Ferrone that we published a couple years back: "Virgil & the Vigil: The Bees Are Coming Back to the Exsultet."