From: Jtjrson@aol.com
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 00:12:37 EST
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Keeping Bees Happy

In a message dated 11/3/01 8:26:35 PM Pacific Standard Time,
deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com writes:

> Bees has brains similar by the way to man and other animals. Just because
> you do not understand or me fully either yet, does not still make it or
> them stupid.

I've been thinking of this subject a lot ever since it came up. I
was thinking that If we stopped thinking of the individual bee and think of
the hive as one we could figure things out a lot better. You can think of one
bee as an equivalent to one human cell. A human cell only performs one
function and that is the same with a house bee and a forage bee, unless there
is a shortage of bees they don't trade positions. Another way to think of it
is, if you think of a bee they are sexual creatures if you think of the hive
of bees as one they are asexual creatures (I Don't know how this fits in I
just thought of it). Instead of thinking of a bee as one, think of the hive as
a body with a bunch of little parts doing certain functions.

Joseph Tona