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A report in Byte, one of the world’s most popular computer maga-

zines, contained very interesting information about honeybees.

The magazine compared bees’ brains to computers! According to the
results of a study reported in the magazine, the bee brain works at a rate
superior to the most highly advanced computer. Today’s most advanced
computers can compute 16 billion computations a second. The figure for
the bee brain is 625 times greater than this: 10 trillion.
What’s more, the bee brain also consumes less energy than a computer
in performing all these computations. The energy consumed by 10 million
bees is the same as that used by a single 100 watt bulb. (The bee brain con-
sumes less than 10 microwatts of energy.) 111
As can be seen from this comparison, every organ in the bee’s body, in-
cluding its brain, has been specially created in order to perform the func-
tions it is engaged in at a given time. Its exoskeleton, for instance, is
exceedingly strong, and its respiratory system allows more oxygen to

reach the soft tissues by making better use of the air. Its muscular structure
possesses different characteristics in different sections of its body, depend-
ing upon requirements for movement. The wing muscles, for instance,
lack the outer membrane found in the other muscles, in order to admit
more oxygen. Similarly, its smell and taste systems are perfectly suited to
such tasks as gathering nectar.
As we saw in the preceding chapters, all the bee’s flawless structures
formed inside a tiny cell in which it completed its development stages.
The physical structure of bees is just one of the proofs of God’s incompa-
rable creative artistry and infinite knowledge. God reveals that His knowl-
edge pervades everything:
Your deity is God alone, there is no deity but Him. He encompasses all
things in His knowledge. (Surah Ta Ha: 98)
This chapter will provide brief information about bees’ bodily systems.

Adnan Oktar