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Lessons From the Life of a Bee

How one tiny insect sustains life and teaches us sacrifice.

By Rohitha LankaPublished 9 months ago 2 min read

Humans inhabit the world for 4 years after the bee dies..... (Albert Einstein) In the animal kingdom, the bee is the model citizen. We owe our food to the bees.

Because this tiny insect accomplishes over 70% of the planet's pollination. An average beehive is home to around 60,000 bees, but there's only one queen! It's not that the bees decide who is the queen, bees decide who, amongst themselves. is the queen. The food brings good nourishment, health and fertility.

That's why the queen, a living insect, lasts for about 5 years. All she has to do is breed the race!! The other bees, the worker bees (…), as for the bee, which beats its wings 12,000 times a minute, travels at a speed of 25 kilometers per hour, will find 2,000 flowers in a single day, and tell the other bees about it, it doesn't even contemplate resting. It closes its eyes on a flower, and only when exhausted does a minute fleetingly pass by. All this effort, and a bee produces only 1 1/2 teaspoons of honey in a lifetime! The bee has a beautiful communication system, merely one dance!....... The bee is the only creature that can communicate information about its own species to the members of a second species through dance. Where the flowers are, how far away they are, what direction they are, how they taste, how to get home, it knows all this by dancing back and forth, and side to side. As a creature with a relatively small number of neurons in their brain, but a relatively good memory because of that brain made of thousands of neurons. That is, after all, why we like to dream in our sleep. A bee doesn't have any brain per se, yet when it stings you, a part of its stomach comes out with the stinger, which means that the bee is stinging you knowing that it is going to die.

Also, if it senses that its life is done, it flies from the hive to avoid the colony coming to any harm from its corpse. This tiny insect is the only creature in the world that does something huge for the ecological balance and for the existence of life, without causing any animal to become prey.

It only prepares the kind of food that never spoils in the world, and then says goodbye to her short life for 4-5 weeks, learns the whole world a great lesson about love, control, and generosity!!!

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  • Marie381Uk 9 months ago

    Nice one 🖌️🏆🌻🌻🌻

  • Very beneficial 🙏

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