Citizens idling en masse at apiary.

[Gatherer]

Odd thing I've encountered...

I have 4 apiary buildings in pairs of 2 on the opposite sides of my current town. Pair A is made of Luke the Dev's original apiary mod and pair B is made of 1 Luke's and 1 RK's NMT apiary.
Pair A has within a 10 tile radius a cemetery and 1 Mathieuso's Deco Mod small fountain and 1 Mathieuso's Deco Mod medium fountain. There are no citizens idling at any one of these apiary buildings.

Pair B has no happiness boost buildings nearby. The only well catering some 20+ houses is over 30 tiles away. But citizens are flocking to these 2 apiary buildings en masse. I have been following individual citizens and they do not seem to receive any happiness boost while staying there.

I haven't seen anything like this in any of my previous towns.

First I thought it was a conflict with the Fish Farm mod which has it's model based on the apiary but I haven't built a fish farm in my town yet and I also have a Fish Farm fix mod enabled that should prevent citizens from gathering there.

I don't know what to think of this.

[A Nonny Moose]

One guesses that there are unattended tasks outstanding for all these idlers.  If not, why worry about how they spend their time?

[Gatherer]

I'm not worrying I just find it odd that all of a sudden they decide to idle at apiary.  I just want to know why. If I knew that I could possibly exploit that somehow in my next town.

[Nilla]

I have noticed that, too. I suppose that our friend @RedKetchup has put a happiness-circle around this building. By the way; you can see the same thing at his bakery, at least at an earlier version. People even idle in the oven!

Another thing; I have never seen any happiness boost from idling, not at any kind of idling place. Only unhappy persons idle more than happy. 

[RedKetchup]

^^ 

lets see the original apiary from Luke :

HappinessDescription happiness
{
   HappinessType _happinessType = Goods;
}

RadiusDescription radius
{
   int _radius = 20;
}


now lets see mine

HappinessDescription happiness
{
   HappinessType _happinessType = Goods;
}

RadiusDescription radius
{
   int _radius = 20;
}



as you can see both are exactly the same, the exact same code

[A Nonny Moose]

Kind of rules that idea out, then.  Maybe it is just the honey that's the attractant.