#5) Bees Dance

 Bee-keeping is a most rewarding enterprise.  

 

“All things are interwoven, each with the other.  The tie is sacred; nothing or next to nothing is alien to aught else.”

            -- Marcus Aurelius, 150 A.D.

 

Honey bees are interwoven with most things in creation.  Their life story speaks of a Creator.  Honey bees are a mathematical phenomenon that is based on the number three and multiples thereof.  In 3 days, the queen bee will hatch; it feeds for 9 days (3x3).  It reaches maturity in 15 days (3x5).  The worker bee reaches maturity in 21 days (3x7); it is at work 3 days after leaving the cell.  The drone matures in 24 days (3x8).  The bee is composed of 3 body parts (head and two stomachs).   The two eyes are made up 3000 smaller eyes each.  Like the cell of the comb, the 3000 smaller eyes have 6 sides each (3x2).  Underneath the body of the bee are 6 wax cells (3x2) with which the comb is made.  The bee has 6 legs (3x2); each is composed in 3 sections.  The foot is 3 triangular sections.  The antennae consist of 9 sections (3x3) on each side.  Creation or natural selection?  There is more to the bee that speaks of Creation.

 

At present, the Ghost Horse Hills are covered with a metre of snow and it is still snowing.  Within 90 days, this will have changed.  Fireweed will be in full bloom.  Crocuses will have flowered and willows will have budded.  The fields and meadows of the Ghost Horse Hills will be ablaze with God’s flowers.  The hive will be all abuzz.  The workers will have already collected nectar and pollen.  The hive will be well established and reconnaissance missions will have been flown.  The workers will be returning with maps of the area, cataloging every flower and its location.  They will have missed nothing.  

 

When they return to the hive, this information will be downloaded to all the other worker bees.  They will dance.  They will dance out the information that they have compiled and in a series of complicated semi-circles and straight lines they will rumble, jerk and jive until all the locations of all the flowers is known to the rest of the hive.  This dance of communication will help make sure that the crops, flowers and plants will be pollinated so that there are seeds for the birds to eat and crops for humans to harvest.  The following spring, other plants will grow and the dance will be repeated.

 

“All things are interwoven, each with the other.  The tie is sacred.”