Oh yes, he does! It’s definitely from the ACD canon, and there is that wince in HLV, but just, for as much as I love thinking about Sherlock and bees the show hasn’t directly mentioned it, which I thought found funny. But yes, the love of bees is definitely canon.
The man has a bee picture in his bedroom. His love for bees will be explicit canon. TBLC.
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