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The Bee
Sura 16 of the Quran is called "the Bee". The bees have been around producing honey for about 15 to 20 million years. Although sura 16 talks about many interesting matters, God chose the name "The bee", to get our attention to the importance of the bees. The bees are one of these miracles of God. We should look at them, learn from them and remember to say, Subhana Allah, Glorified be God, or Mashaa Allah, that is what God willed. It is the will of God to give us these beautiful creatures to serve us.
Bees do not only supply us with the delicious honey that we eat but they are very essential in keeping our plants living and well. They also make beeswax that is used in many goods.When the bees go to the flowers to
feed on their pollens ( small parts of a flower that is important for growing seeds, fruits, or more flowers), they carry some of these pollens on their bodies. They move these pollens between different flowers. That is what
we call Cross-pollination. This pollination helps keep the plants alive by making more seeds or flowers. From seeds we can have more plants. It is a wonderful miracle of God. Bees are the chief workers of cross-pollination. If it were not for them, half of our most beautiful flowers
would disappear. Bees work at amazing speed. A honeybee, thrusting her nose into one flower after another, can pollinate at the rate of about 30 flowers per minute!
Who taught the bees? What book did they read? Where did they go to school?
God taught them. God programmed all these things into them. The bees submitted to God and accepted whatever He gave them. They were created to serve us, and for us to appreciate them as a gift from God. The bees are happy and content to carry out their purpose. It is our turn as humans to submit to God, worship Him and be content with what He gave us.
Quran
I seek refuge in God from Satan the rejected
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
[16:68-69]
And your Lord inspired the bee: build homes in mountains and trees,
and in (the hives) they build for you.
Then eat from all the fruits, following the design of your Lord, precisely.
From their bellies comes a drink of different colors, wherein
there is healing for the people.
This should be (sufficient) proof for people who reflect.
It is interesting to know that the female bees , not the male bees are the ones who build the hives. This information was not known when the Quran was given to the Prophet Muhammed over 1400 years ago, but only God knew. God in the Quran used the words that mean the
female bees are the ones to build the hives.
Some Interesting facts about Bees
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The Bee
Sura 16 of the Quran is called "the Bee". The bees have been around producing honey for about 15 to 20 million years. Although sura 16 talks about many interesting matters, God chose the name "The bee", to get our attention to the importance of the bees. The bees are one of these miracles of God. We should look at them, learn from them and remember to say, Subhana Allah, Glorified be God, or Mashaa Allah, that is what God willed. It is the will of God to give us these beautiful creatures to serve us.
Bees do not only supply us with the delicious honey that we eat but they are very essential in keeping our plants living and well. They also make beeswax that is used in many goods.When the bees go to the flowers to
feed on their pollens ( small parts of a flower that is important for growing seeds, fruits, or more flowers), they carry some of these pollens on their bodies. They move these pollens between different flowers. That is what
we call Cross-pollination. This pollination helps keep the plants alive by making more seeds or flowers. From seeds we can have more plants. It is a wonderful miracle of God. Bees are the chief workers of cross-pollination. If it were not for them, half of our most beautiful flowers
would disappear. Bees work at amazing speed. A honeybee, thrusting her nose into one flower after another, can pollinate at the rate of about 30 flowers per minute!
Who taught the bees? What book did they read? Where did they go to school?
God taught them. God programmed all these things into them. The bees submitted to God and accepted whatever He gave them. They were created to serve us, and for us to appreciate them as a gift from God. The bees are happy and content to carry out their purpose. It is our turn as humans to submit to God, worship Him and be content with what He gave us.
Quran
I seek refuge in God from Satan the rejected
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
[16:68-69]
And your Lord inspired the bee: build homes in mountains and trees,
and in (the hives) they build for you.
Then eat from all the fruits, following the design of your Lord, precisely.
From their bellies comes a drink of different colors, wherein
there is healing for the people.
This should be (sufficient) proof for people who reflect.
It is interesting to know that the female bees , not the male bees are the ones who build the hives. This information was not known when the Quran was given to the Prophet Muhammed over 1400 years ago, but only God knew. God in the Quran used the words that mean the
female bees are the ones to build the hives.
Some Interesting facts about Bees
- (1) Bees maintain a temperature of 92-93 degrees Fahrenheit
- in their nest regardless of whether the outside temperature is
- very hot or very cold..
- (2)Honey bees produce beeswax from small areas on the
- underside of their body.
- (3)Honey bees must consume about 17-20 pounds of honey
- to be able to produce each pound of beeswax.
- (4)Honey bees can fly up to 10 miles from their nest in search
- of food. Usually, however, they fly one or two miles
- away from their hive to search for food on flowers.
- (5)Worker honey bees live for about 4 weeks in the spring or
- summer but up to 6 weeks during the winter.
- (6) The queen may lay 600-800 or even 1,500 eggs each day
- during her 3 or 4 year lifetime. This daily egg production may
- equal her own weight. She is constantly fed and groomed by
- the worker bees.
- (7) A busy colony may contain 40,000 to 60,000 bees .
- (8) Honey bees fly at 15 miles per hour. A honey bee visits
- 50-100 flowers during one collection trip.
- .(9) Honey is 80% sugars and 20% water. It is a delicious
- food when eaten by itself or added to other food.
- (10)Honey has been used for thousands of years as a topical
- dressing for wounds since microbes cannot live in it.
- (11) The honey bees must tap about two million flowers to
- make one pound of honey.
- (12) A hive of bees fly over 55,000 miles to bring you one
- pound of honey. The average worker honey bee
- makes only 1/12 teaspoon in her lifetime.
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Mysterious Illness Threatens Honeybees; Food Supply
By Erin Leach, Anchor/Reporter
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AMANA - Honeybees are dying off at an alarming rate and no one knows why. Not only does this mystery illness affect the livelihood of local beekeepers but it also could limit what ends up on your dinner plate.
Matt Stewart raises bees. He rents them out for pollination and bottles honey. Last year he had 42 registered bee colonies. This year, he's down to just over 20. In fact, he just lost one last week.
"I went down there and there's no bees in it so I start going through the frames to investigate and there's the queen running back and forth," he says. "She looked at me and flew away and to this day that hive is empty down there."
The problem is called Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious illness that's killing off tens of thousands of honeybees across the country.
Matt says, "I watched a lot of science fiction when I was a kid. If we can't find out what's going on it's going to change everything."
That’s because honeybees don't just make honey, they pollinate much of our food supply. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture about one third of the human diet comes from insect-pollinated plants. The honeybee is responsible for 80 percent of that pollination.
Matt has taken it upon himself to warn eastern Iowa about this looming crisis.
"I was working the Renaissance Fair this weekend and I couldn't shut my mouth. People were going in and saying you gotta talk to the bee guy," he says. "So I told them what I could and some got a little tear in their eye because this is serious business. This isn't something the bee keepers are just crying about.
Instead of crying, Matt is collecting as much information as possible and sending it to a research facility in Montana, hoping for answers.
There are a few theories as to what's behind C.C.D., but the front runner is a new strain of nosema, a parasite that causes disease.