Eight Wonders of Bees According to Al-Quran

Surat An-Nahl ayat 68 dan 69

“ Dan Tuhan-mu mewahyukan kepada lebah : Buatlah sarang-sarang di bukit-bukit, dipohon-pohon kayu, dan ditempat-tempat yang dibikin manusia “(16;68)

Delapan Keajaiban Lebah


If diceramati there are at least eight wonders who owned bees:
1. From the diversity of species and their habitats. Honeybees comprised of several species with physical features and "hangout" which differ from each other: there bee Apis dorsata or forest, which disunda sisebut odeng, with regional spread around the area of ​​sub-tropical and tropical Asia such as Indonesia (from Sumatra to Papua), Philippines and beyond. In addition, Apis laboriosa that we can see the Himalayan region.


2. From the nature polimorfofismenya really bineka. Each member of the colony has a unique anatomical, physiological and biological functions that are very different. In addition there are females who later became queen (queen) and male (drone), there are also groups of worker bees (worker bees), which is actually a female bees but not fully developed reproductive organs. "Printing" the sex itself has recognized this long ago, even since I was in the early phase of the egg. After mating, the queen bee will surround the nest to look for cells that are still empty. To remove an egg, it takes 0.5 minutes. After removing 30 eggs, the queen will break 6 seconds to eat based cell-laid. Eggs candidate worker bees kept small cell section, the lid is flat, and the most numerous. While the egg is more male candidates are placed in the cell size is slightly larger, with a lid and there are prominent black dot in the middle. There is also the queen's eggs are placed in the cell potential is greatest, irregular and usually located alongside a nest.


3. From the side order of life. Bees are always on the social insecticide mutual cooperation and interdependence. The division of tasks and their organizations are very organized, orderly, and discipline of self-awareness to achieve optimal as possible so that the continuity and the ability to form colonies are very strong. In addition there are individual tasks, such as its queen bee laying eggs continuously; male marrying the queen bee, while the worker bee keeping and members feed larvae, build new cells and repair old ones, and process the nectar so honey. There are also other tasks carried together, namely keep the hive from enemy attack.


4. Eating good food, produce that is not less good. Nearly all flowering plants is a "field" for the bee. From there, these animals take nectar, pollen (pollen) and water. Nectar is a complex compound produced by plants necterfier gland in the form of solutions, with sugar concentration varies from about 5% smapai 70% or more of the more nectar contains sugar, the more happy bees visit the flower and water, between 40% to 80%. While pollen, which bees utilized, especially as a source of protein, fat, karbonhidrat, and a little mineral obtained from the "antenna" or male sex cells of plants. A honey bee colony requires approximately 50 kg of pollen per year. About half of the pollen was used for larval food. The elements are produced, in addition to honey, which is believed to be used as food and medicine for many diseases, there are royal jelly, bee pollen, glue or propolis, beeswax or night (beeswax), and bee venom (bee venom or apitoxin).


5. Hard worker. Bees search feed is a worker bee "most senior"and tergesit, with a cruising speed reached 65 km per hour, can travel a distance of 46 km nonstop. When you're carrying nectar, transported in bags of flour that is in feet, speed is only 30 km per hour with a speed of wing vibration as much as 250 times per second. To collect 1 kg of honey, a bee must travel 90000-180000 times and visited many flowers before returning to the nest. This means, if each travel a distance of 3 km round trip, a bee must travel a distance of 3 x (90000-180000) miles to fulfill that duty.


6. Has a unique way of communication between each other. In addition to the pheromone-senyaewa chemical produced from the queen bee-hipofarink gland which controls the activity of worker bees, as a sexual attraction or sebgai guiding compass when it is migrating colony, worker bees bee done utamnya able to communicate through dance. When a bee guide (Scout) got the nectar of flowers, actually entered the nest, she will perform in eight movements such as shaking belly dance, amid a crowd of other bees. Flick and dance performed in different patterns and organized. Through the terms, the other worker bees to know the position of food sources referred to without difficulty.


7. Architects carefully. Bees build their nests in the form of hexagonal cells (hexagon). Besides as a "warehouse" the most effective way to store honey, must be recognized, this form also can trap more oxygen and other elements they need compared to other geometric shapes, such as a circle or rectangle. Development nest itself started from different angles until finally met exactly in the middle.


8. Not interfere unless disturbed. Except that the male bee-weapon-equipped in the form of barbed sting, with venom in it. For those who are hypersensitive, every sting can cause a serious reaction. While those who are not hypersensitive, will not create any impact. Luckily the bees rarely use it to interfere. For him, these weapons serve as a tool to defend themselves when disturbed. Perhaps, because of its wonders why, the bee was chosen to describe a whole person. Because the whole human manusaia believers, according to the apostle is like a bee, do not eat except a good and beautiful, like a fragrant flower; not produce anything except a good and useful, such as honey and a variety of other products, diamping able to adapt well in various places, receive diversity, like work together, tenacious in working, careful and precise in thinking and do not bother, unless disturbed.