Not sure if anyone’s following this post anymore, I was Googling the connection between bees and persimmon trees and found this thread.
I have one, I identified it through an app. There’s a crazy insane amount of buzzing coming from the tree. It is a fairly large tree, I could not find any hive. It is full of what appears to be buds (little balls on the branches that will be flowers?). They are honeybees and I can only assume that they are pollinating.
Just for reference, I am in South Carolina close to the coast.