Great article. The world needs to understand the importance of the Honey Bees. Honeybees face many challenges including increasing lack of forage because of modern farming practices.Failure to guard against the demise of honey bees will rank as mankind's single greatest failure. The danger to food supplies is huge.

I think Humanity has too heavy an attachment to technology as a life facilitator. Instead of pondering on ideas as to how nature can recover from Humans' exploitation of Earth, most ideas are spent on how the natural life circle can be manipulated even more. Instead of proposing ideas as to how we can keep the natural flow intact, like you do with the lawnmowing, scientists instead opt for creating pollinating drones which aim at replacing bees or butterflies. All this is merely a product of indifference towards nature's decline and in turn amplify technology use to 'facilitate our lives.

Thing is, depopulation of even one species alone has drastic repercussions on the entire biotope. But any intrusion in natural processes always leds to disharmony in the cycle of life. Of course, nature always finds its ways but particularly the pace at which havoc is wreaked on Nature entails scant recovery...

Bees are certainly important to our survival, it makes me so mad when i find out friends kill them. Its also important to not kill these flowers, and even plant more of them on the outskirts of your home, or in unused fields you know of. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/30/e2/55/30e255bdd31188d1238a767a563362f9--flowers-garden-garden-plants.jpg![](https://steemitimages.com/DQma9WoJZ5hhodBtaRoSNxkeWSAHUNiYWo7e9g2M8cVuUxp/image.png)

Yey!!! After almost one week you don't have post ms. @arbitrarykitten... O'm glad your back... how's your hips and back hope you're okay...😊😊😊
Another informative and interesting post maam... didn't know all of these about bees until now... 😊😊❤️😘

Did not know all that about bees! I know that life as we know it is pretty dependent on bees, but had no idea so many of their attributes were being used in research and science. Much newfound respect for bees!

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@arbitrarykitten mam...
Another execellent article...smart work mam....
Honeybees are known to communicate in a dance language called the waggle dance to point out the location of resources that keep the hive alive, but new research reveals that gravity can mess with this dance's accuracy.
The waggle dance is an important part of how they provide for the bee community. Foragers go out, find food, water or other resources, and come back to signal the location to the rest of hive to go out and harvest.

"She will come back and do this dance which is communicating to her nest mates the direction and distance of where this resource is located,"..

The waggle dancing bee walks along the vertical honeycombs quickly vibrating her body and wings. The bee repeats this walk many times with her body angled in the same direction, indicating and re-indicating the same angle.

The dance signals the direction of the food patch in relation to the sun, which is always interpreted by the other bees as straight up (regardless of where it is in the sky). If the dancing bee positions its body straight up, that indicates to the other bees to fly straight toward where the sun is on the horizon. If the dancer angles her body with face pointing down toward the ground, which means the food patch is located directly opposite the sun's position on the horizon.

Keep it up dear...
Cheers~~~

I have tried twice to keep a colony, lost them both... start to feel like I am part of the problem! But I think I have someone who can really help me, as soon as I work up the courage to try again. They are just amazing creatures, I felt like crap when they died off. My husband had the Fu though, and showed me. We never got stung, no hoods or smokers or shit. Of course, we never harvested honey either, just checked the hive but they were OK with us having a look.

How are you? I see that you have slowed down on here a lot and am hoping that it is due to other work you have and not to feeling too poorly to post.
Hugs to you!!

I now have a new respect for bees. I never knew all of that. 

So "The Bee Movie" wasn't making all up then? Who knew? (Probably the people who study bees. It was rhetorical.)

Next time I see a bee, I shall name him "Bob." I will not pet him though. I think that is fair.

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Well penned article. Sharing it to Twitter!

I like your posts. They're always on point with a unique perspective.

@arbitrarykitten mam...
Such a wonderful and interesting article...

Understanding the Waggle Dance....
 
Frisch found that the waggle dance communicated, very precisely, the location of a food supply, the distance of a resource from the nest and the angle of the sun in relation to that resource. “The duration of the waggle, when the bee buzzes and shakes her abdomen, communicates the distance of the flowers,” Winston says. “If she buzzes for two seconds, the flowers may be around 100 meters away,” he adds. “She also buzzes at an angle that corresponds to the direction of polarized light rays from the sun.”

So, the distance of a resource is communicated by the timing of the dance, the direction by the angle of the dance, and the quality of the resource by how enthusiastically the dancing bee buzzes and shakes her abdomen.

“It’s remarkable that an organism with a brain the size of a pinhead can locate, very precisely, the distance and direction of a patch of blooming flowers,” Winston says. “Bees are also capable of using the sun as a compass, and they can remember landmarks,” he adds. “Bees are extraordinary creatures.”

The Importance of Bees...

It’s clear that bees are highly sophisticated and social creatures. How bees contribute to Mother Earth, however, is quite simple: “Bees pollinate flowers, and that simple interaction is so important for the world’s plants and crops,” Winston tells me. But, unfortunately, a number of low-level stressors are bringing about catastrophic outcomes for bees.

Winston tells me that, if bees disappear from the face of the earth, at least a third of our food will vanish along with them. “Some non-bee-pollinated crops like wheat and corn would survive,” he says, “but the fruit, the vegetables, the flowers, those would all be gone.” These plants and flowers create habitat for other insects and animals, and Winston predicts that this kind of scenario would have dire consequences for the entire food chain.

Wel done and perfect work mam...

@arbitrarykitten I found this post unBEElievable. I never knew that they recognized me when I was out walking around my yard..................

Great stuff! Bees love dandelions. When I learned this I let them grow until they start to puffball. Then they gotta go!

Wow that is such a good article about the bees and why we need bees in our world.
 One more interesting fact is that the bee sting has benefits too . There is a toxin in bee venom called melittin which may prevent HIV. The bees are the most economical and hard workers.