I don’t think it’s a joke or even paranoid, just a bee noticing the effect of a quirk of human brains.
Noticing an illogical thing because their brain took a shortcut and dusted the fallout under a rug isn’t an easy experience. The first instinct is not to assume our mind has broken, it’s to try to find the answer to make the event explainable. Often that involves thinking only inside the scope of the event because no other information is immediately apparent.