After Barney has filled his 4 pails with honey and the bees are returning, Barney SCRAMs (as per his "How To Find Wild Honey" book's direction) with the overflowing pails. As the bees pursue, Barney is now carrying 4 empty buckets. However, after he and the empty pails splash down in the pond, Barney surfaces with his face covered in honey.
As Barney is chasing the bee with his ladder and buckets, he is carrying 9 pails. when he goes over the cliff, a total of 20 buckets can be seen - 3 hanging from tree branches protruding from the cliff side and 17 strewn about on the ground.
After Barney's fall off the cliff, all his buckets are dented and mangled. When he recovers, he grabs 7 now-pristine pails and runs off-screen to the honey tree, where he now is carrying only 4 buckets.
Barney takes four buckets to the honey tree. When confronted by the swarm, he drops the four buckets. After a close-up shot, those buckets have disappeared. They then reappear when the decoy queen has lured the rest of the bees away.
The control panel for the Bee Detector changes - a panel meter labeled 'AMPS' appears after the Bee Detector is put in place.
At the end, the bees drop Barney's "How to Find Wild Honey" book into the pond; it opens to the last pages that say, "Nest Time Use Your Ration Book! You Wont Get Stung!" The word "won't" is missing the apostrophe.