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service of the queen ever impaired. Bees behave most intelligently at all
stages of their lives and successfully complete all the tasks entrusted to
them.
The activities of worker bees are described in The Marvels of Animal
Behavior, a book published by the National Geographic Society:
If you watch the workers, it soon becomes obvious that their behavior is con-
sistent and that they do not shift aimlessly from task to task. One bee may
spend an hour readying cells for fresh eggs; another moves across the combs to
attend the queen; a third forages in the field. How does each worker know pre-
cisely what to do and when to do it? 43
In order to carry out their jobs in the hive, as mentioned earlier, work-
ers sometimes use special fluids and at other times, organs created for the
task at hand. In order for a bee to survive, the properties it possesses all
need to exist at the same time. The venom and stinger essential to the de-
fense of the hive, the elongated mouthpart used to collect nectar from
flowers, the hairs which allow pollen to stick to the forager’s body, the
comb-like hairs on their legs, and a great many other structures have all
existed since bees first appeared on Earth. In addition, the behavior de-
scribed by evolutionists as “instinctive” must also have existed since their
first appearance. A bee has to know how to feed larvae, how to serve the
queen, the best angle at which to build the combs for the easiest storage of
honey, how to save wax and protect the hive, how to collect propolis, and

how to tell its fellows where food is located—and all this from the moment
of its emergence from its cell. In short, all bees’ abilities must have been in
existence for as long as bees themselves have.
Were only one of bees’ features not to exist, then insuperable difficul-
ties would arise, and these creatures would be unable to survive. This fact
proves that bees could not have emerged over the course of time, in stages,
as evolutionists would have us believe. In the absence of a single one of
their properties and abilities, bees could not survive. Without stings, for
example, they would be unable to defend themselves. Without the pollen
baskets behind their legs, they would be unable to carry pollen back to the
hive. If their proboscises were too short, they would be unable to suck up