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Isn’ t i t neat? Could you have made such neat
he x agon s s i de by s i de w i t hou t a r u l e r ?
Furthermore, take a blank piece of paper and start
to draw hexagons from one end of the paper whi le
a friend starts to draw from the other . Were you
ab l e t o come up wi th a neat honey comb shape ,
right in the middle of the paper, without leaving
any s pac e s ? You we r en ’ t ab l e t o , r i gh t ? T h i s i s
something that even adults are unable to manage.
Your teacher s , parent s , even your grandparent s
would not be able to achieve such a task. To be able
to do this, you would need some instruments and
you wou l d hav e t o do v e r y c omp l i c a t ed
calculations. However, the tiny bee, even when it is
j u s t 12 day s o l d , c an mak e s u c h a pe r f e c t
honeycomb. What ' s more, it does this without using
any instruments.
Al l the bees start making hexagonal honeycombs
f r om t he c o r ne r s , and me e t i n t he mi dd l e . You
might have not i ced that the honeycombs are the
same he i ght . How can a bee manage such tasks
that even humans are not abl e to carry out and
with such excel lence? You see Al lah is the One Who
lets the bee do these things. Al lah has created the
bee with this talent .
The respons ibi l i t i es of the worker bee are not
just these. Among its duties, unti l it is 3 weeks old,
a r e s t o r i ng r oya l j e l l y and po l l en i n t he
hone y c omb s , k e ep i ng t he be eh i v e c l ean and
t h r ow i ng dead be e s and ga r bage ou t s i de t he
beehive. During the last stage of its 3-week duty, it
starts its last task of serving as a security guard
and protecting the beehive from enemies. When the
t h r e e we e k s a r e o v e r , t he be e be c ome s s k i l l ed
enough to col lect royal jel ly, pol len and water .
