Page 54 - Wonders of Allah's Creation

THE TINY PRODIGIES THAT

PRODUCE HONEY

Do you know who makes the honey on your
breakfast table?

You will probably reply, “yes!” We all know that
bees make honey. However, do you know just how
much these bees work to make the honey from the
moment they are born until the moment they die,
or just how giving and intelligent they are? Come
on; let’s study together how Allah has created the
bees…
In a beehive, there is one queen, a few hundred
male bees and a workforce of thousands of

infertile female bees, the worker bees. (The total
number of bees in the beehive can reach 80,000).
The worker bees perform all the activities inside
the hive. Some duties of the worker bees are as
follows:
Building the honeycomb, cleaning and
protecting the hive, feeding the queen bee and the

male bees, caring for the bee larvae, and feeding
them with the royal jelly, honey and pollen,
building cells for the eggs to grow in, cleaning

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