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A Little Bit Of Sweetness
written by: Helen Dowd
A LITTLE BIT OF SWEETNESS
Judges 14:8 - "What is sweeter than honey?"
Psalm 119:105 - "How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey and the honeycomb."
It’s spring here. The birds are back for the summer; trees are fully leaved; flowers are in abundance. And the bees are out doing what bees do--pollinating flowers, making honey. Making honey is important, but pollinating food plant for man and animals is even more important.
Some Bee Facts:
** The bee has two stomachs, one for digesting its food; the other is the honey sac. This sac contains one third of a drop of honey when it is full.
**The bee has a very powerful stinger, barbed with a sheath of two tiny darts. It first pierces a hole, and then it moved the saw-like darts up and down to make the hole deeper. It then deposits a drop of fluid into the hole.
**The bee, it is said, will not harm you if you do not molest it.
Beeswax is a very important substance for mankind. It was used during World War II for waterproofing and coating planes, shells and other equipment. It is also used to make adhesive tape, carbon paper, candles, records, polishes and ointments. It is used as an ingredient in the making of models for store windows. Although it is useful for man, it is not made for his purposes.
THE BEE COMMUNITY:
Everyone knows that honey comes from bees. But have we ever studied the bee to learn about how she makes honey? Yes. I said "she". The bees who make the honey are females. They literally kill themselves doing so. And did you know that the object of the bees' making honey is not to make food for us? It is to care for the bee community.
THE QUEEN BEE -- her life span can be as long as five years.
The queen bee is the mother of all the future bees. She isn't called QUEEN because she rules the bee community. Her one job is to lay eggs. She can lay as many as 2,500 eggs a day. This is twice her body weight. She can lay fertilized or unfertilized eggs. The worker bees govern how many of these eggs actually hatch, by what they feed the queen.
THE DRONE- his life of leisure is short-lived.
His main purpose in life is to fertilize the eggs of the queen.
The drones are males.
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