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76                  THE MIRACLE OF THE HONEYBEE


                 In such an emergency, the workers start to tear down the walls of cells
              around those of the larvae being raised as queens. Their aim is to widen
              the regular cells and enlarge them into royal cells. Several worker cells are
              torn down for any single royal cell. The worker larvae inside them die, of
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                 Yet this loss is insignificant for the hive. The workers do this in order to
              ensure the survival of their colony as a whole. They prefer the survival of
              a few candidate queens to that of several workers. Following the prepara-
              tion of the queen cells in this manner, the new potential queens are fed
              with royal jelly.
                 Shortly afterwards, the first of the specially reared queens emerges
              from her cell and sets about eliminating her rivals.
                 From the moment she emerges from the cell until leaving the hive, the
              queen is fully aware of what she needs to do. There is only one possible ex-
              planation for her conscious and goal-oriented behavior and the way in
              which she’s fully equipped with everything she needs to achieve that end.
              Bees possess a consciousness inspired in them by God, and engage in this
              behavior by His will.


                 Male Bees
                 The males, or drones, are the only exception in bee colonies, where
              every other individual has a number of responsibilities. The male bees
              make no contribution to the defense of the hive, nor to cleaning, nor to
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              food gathering. Their only function is to fertilize the queen. Since the
              drones possess almost none of the features found in other bees, except for
              their reproductive organs, they are not able to serve any other purpose ex-
              cept fertilizing the queen.
                 There are very distinctive differences between male and female bees.
              Some of these may be listed as follows:
                 - Female bees have pollen baskets, whereas males do not.
                 - Females have stings, which are absent in males.
                 - Females have combs which help to collect pollen on their feet and
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