Another point which drew my attention is that each
bee that later joins the construction of the honeycomb
immediately understands the stage things are at and
takes charge of the job. As bees continue building cells
from different corners, a totally different bee joining the
team starts building from an entirely different angle.
While such a process would normally cause great
disorder, the bees build up a perfect structure.
I also read the section about bees' technique of
making honey. I was very surprised and excited to read
about this extraordinary process. The book said that the
essence of honey is the nectar that bees collect from
flowers and fruit buds. After collecting this nectar from
flowers, bees turn it into honey.
There was one more important subject in the book: it
takes a lot of hard work to produce honey. For instance,
just to collect half a kilogram of nectar, 900 bees have to
work for a full day. Other figures in the book were even
more surprising: to produce 450 grams of pure honey, 17
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Harun Yahya
