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I think this is a good approach and the right attitude. I think that people tend to discount insects because they are small, simplistic, and ephemeral. Yet, social insects such as bees are part of a larger organism: the colony/hive. And collectively, that hive carries a lot of sentience, memory, and agency. We didn't coin the term hive mind for no reason!

So while this custom seems perhaps superstitious and frivolous, it carries actual layers of meaning and importance, because animal husbandry, even insect husbandry, is steeped richly in tradition and knowledge handed down across generations, for millennia, more than we can even comprehend.