THE TINY PRODIGIES THAT
PRODUCE HONEY
Do you know who makes the honey on your
breakfast table?
You wi l l probably reply, “yes!” We al l know that
bees make honey. However, do you know just how
much these bees work to make the honey from the
moment they are born unti l the moment they die,
or just how giving and intel l igent they are? Come
on; let’s study together how Al lah has created the
bees…
In a beehive, there is one queen, a few hundred
ma l e be e s and a wo r k f o r c e o f t hou s and s o f
inferti le female bees, the worker bees. (The total
number of bees in the beehive can reach 80,000) .
The worker bees perform al l the act ivi t ies ins ide
the hi ve . Some dut i es of the worker bees are as
fol lows:
Bu i l d i ng t he hone y c omb , c l ean i ng and
protecting the hive, feeding the queen bee and the
male bees, caring for the bee larvae, and feeding
t hem w i t h t he r oya l j e l l y , hone y and po l l en ,
bu i l d i ng ce l l s for the eggs to grow i n , c l ean i ng
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