Significant navigational skills and exceptional architectural capabilities.
Wonderful teamwork and unparalleled social organization.
Just a great navigator when you keep wandering the fields back and forth,
but your life and the lives of your children still depend on your dancing skill.
Since you can only tell your sisters how to find new food, water, resin, and nest spots,
using your innovative dancing language.
Not only that, but you can also use your solar compass to allow you to locate flowers in relation to the sun.
Even if the sun is obscured or not,
your ability to see polarized light enables you to determine the location of the sun.
You can also use your internal watch to keep track of your distance.
With this innovative indoor clock, you can also determine how much the sun will move during your flight.
When you return to the hive, you can tell your sisters exactly where the food is,
with respect to the current position of the sun,
not the location of the sun when you found that food.
As you get older, you will also learn how the sun's path across the sky changes with the seasons.
And at different latitudes if your hive has been moved.
Whether you are willing to tell me or not who taught you all these skills,
Obviously, "A person who is blind cannot guide another who is blind, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit?''
The blind natural selection cannot produce an insightful creature like you.
Significant navigational skills and exceptional architectural capabilities.
Wonderful teamwork and unparalleled social organization.
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Very true Samer.
Andy
Thank you Andy for your sincere feedback.
Good write Samer.
Thank you so much!
I still hope to hear one of your songs one day.
Will it be a threat or a promise, if I say 'I will sing ya one (or more)?!' heehee.
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Love that water color. Good bee observation.
Yes, this water color is so beautiful indeed!
I am sure your artworks are so beautiful too, whether they are mosaic or paintings.
Your poem reminded me again how exceptional and important bees are. Without them, there would be no food.
This is true, Fred.
It is a kind of miraculous balance in the food chain, and all parts of this chain are inseparable from each other.
Thank you Fred for your wise feedback.
Bees are among the most intriguing creatures. I can watch them for hours visiting my backyard blossoms, from the first tiny clover blooms poking out in early spring to the last crimson Turk's caps hanging on after the first freeze of late fall. Your portrayal of them as engineers and navigators as well as dancers and nurturers is wonderfully insightful. In many ancient traditions, verse was used didactically to teach farming as well as theology, proper behavior as well as epic battles. This reminded me of some of the ancient Greek and Latin and medieval didactic poetry.
Thank you very much for sharing this valuable knowledge about the importance of educational poetry since ancient times.
It is very kind of you to specify the importance of poetry not only for pure pleasure, but also for very practical usage.
Of course, science indicates that creatures like bees are exactly what natural selection produces. Intricate little creatures that fill niches perfectly and develop complex structures and behaviors perfectly suited to their environments... till ice ages or diseases or human pollution and development interfere. Many many amazing species, including some we humans never even knew about, have been destroyed as we drastically disrupt their environments. God seems to be a little helpless dealing with our relentless ransacking of natural resources. Maybe God is as much a victim of man as the helpless creatures of the forest, tidepool, and mountainside. If God made all this, he seems to have created a Frankenstein in mankind.
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