What Einstein said about honeybees? So it is with pardonable pride that beekeepers have been known to endorse quotes like the one attributed to Albert Einstein: “
If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than four years left to live.”
Can humans survive without bees?
Put simply,
we cannot live without bees
. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that pollinators like bees and butterflies help pollinate approximately 75 percent of the world’s flowering plants. They pollinate roughly 35 percent of the world’s food crops—including fruits and vegetables.
What will happen if there are no honey bees?
We may lose all the plants that bees pollinate, all of the animals that eat those plants and so on up the food chain
. Which means a world without bees could struggle to sustain the global human population of 7 billion. Our supermarkets would have half the amount of fruit and vegetables. It gets worse.
What are fun facts about bees?
- Bees have 5 eyes.
- Bees are insects, so they have 6 legs.
- Male bees in the hive are called drones.
- Bees fly about 20 mph.
- Female bees in the hive (except the queen) are called worker bees.
- Number of eggs laid by queen: 2,000 per day is the high.
- Losing its stinger will cause a bee to die.
Where there are bees there are flowers quote?
“
Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.
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- “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” — …
- “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” — …
- “Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.” — …
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —
According to olden civilization beliefs,
beehives are considered as a symbol of good luck and wealth
. They saw honey bee nests as good omen, something that is going to bring prosperity, money and well being. In Christianity, the bee is seen to have Jesus Christ’s attributes.
What Do Bees Symbolize In The Bible? Bees hold a special significance in the Christian religion as they manifest the characteristics of Jesus—
strength, perseverance, and wisdom
. In Christian tradition, the bee is even regarded as the emblem of Jesus Christ himself.
Bees follow you
because Sweat is sweet to bees
.
These bees are usually metallic in color and rather small and harder to notice than their yellow and black counterparts. These bees can sting but aren’t known for being aggressive towards humans. They just want to take a lick of that sweet, sweet sweat.
Bee symbolism and meanings include
focus, dedication, hard work, teamwork, fertility, prosperity, and generosity
. Because bees exist on every continent on Earth except Antarctica, they are subjects in the mythology and folklore of many cultures around the world.
MeliBio has just launched the world’s first real animal-free honey, made without any bees
. Using synthetic biology, the company is able to replicate real honey down to the molecular level, but without the need to harm the planet’s essential pollinators.
They pollinate a third of our food
.
One out of every three bites you put in your mouth was pollinated by honeybees. In addition to pollinating crops such as apples, almonds, broccoli strawberries, cucumbers and cotton, bees also pollinate alfalfa seeds which are used for beef and dairy feed.
Bees are perfectly adapted to pollinate, helping plants grow, breed and produce food
. They do so by transferring pollen between flowering plants and therefore keeping the cycle of life turning.
Bees have 5 eyes
As well as two large eyes either side of its head, a bee has three ‘simple’ or ‘ocelli’ eyes on the top of its head. These detect light (but not shapes), meaning that a bee can sense if it is being approached from above by a predator.
The meaning/
fulfillment/enjoyment
is in the writing — not the result (if there IS a result!). One thing we can be sure of is that our life’s work is to create, to blossom. If the bee comes, great!
“
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever
.” “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” “We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed.
Bees and the Church Today
“
The bee was a sacred being because it made sacred wax
; and wax was holy because the bee was holy.” (Wilson, 47).
The bee was then seen as the messenger of the gods
, falling from Ra’s face, down to earth, where she could deliver the messages from the heavens. The ancient Celts also saw honeybees as messengers between worlds. They considered honeybees bringers of wisdom and revered them for their role in the metaphysical.
Mayan Culture
is one of the only ancient cultures known to have worshiped bees in a primarily masculine form, though they did refer to bees as ‘Our Ladies’. Their bee god was called Ah Muzen Cab and his temple was Tulum.
