Bees have an inbuilt navigation system, perhaps even humans

 


We visited our Bee apiary (29 hives so far) located in wakiso-kiwenda on a 1 decimal enclave inside a 4acre growing forest earlier in the morning and here are my key takeaways;

1. Most bees live for only 30 days but they are working from day 1 even at night until their death.

2. Bees have a great banking system; that rich honey is their stored food for the cold and dry seasons.  

3. Bees are very cooperative & organized, the bee that carries the nectar hands over the nectar to another bee and then to another before it’s cleaned and finally put into a comb.

4. Bees are organized and hardworking with each bee doing it’s specific task; worker bees collecting food, building the nest. the queen laying eggs sometimes up to 10,000 and producing pheromes that assist in the navigation system for all its bees and a bunch of drone bees that stay in the hive organizing the hive, protecting the queen and hive.

6. They are guard bees at every bee hive that use the chemical signature in every bee and only grant access to their known bees and dispel other unknown bees or insects.

7. The queen is initially like any other normal female bee that is fed on special food and eventually becomes the special one and can last up to an average of 3 years

8. If we lost all bees on planet earth, we could loose all plants within one year, they contribute the most to pollination. Having bees near a large scale farming site like coffee, maize or sunflower farm increases production by 25%

9. Unlike other many agricultural investments where you restart the whole investment process, you literally don’t have much to reinvest in after the 3 months’ harvest period which makes it a less intensive project.

10. The bee venom is medicinal; it’s most expensive bee by-product used in treatment of central nervous diseases, increasing blood circulation and cosmetics.

11. You can assess the status of the bee hive by observing activity outside the hive as the number of guard bees outside indicates ripeness/availability of ready combs and the guard bees are stationed for protection.

12. Bees have an inbuilt remarkable navigation system that allows them trace route back to their hive. Those that lose access to their hives for many reasons like natural disaster, storm or human activity will not try to fit into another hive as they will be denied access at random hives and will most times not even try to access any other hive. Perhaps that was my greatest take home- May we develop our navigation system and know our true calling and only navigate and expound to where we are made for.




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