Posts Tagged: feeding one another We can all learn from the
honey bees. Worker bees--sisters--are like feeding machines.
They not only feed each other, but feed the queen and their
brothers, the drones. It's a marvelous sight to see, nectar
being passed from one bee to another. Honey bee expert Norman
Gary, emeritus professor of entomology at the University of
California, Davis, and a beekeeper for more than six decades,
says it well in his newly published book: Honey Bee Hobbyist:
The Care and Keeping of Bees. Gary points out that "efficient
communication is the fabric of social behavior. It enables the
thousands of bees in a colony to function almost as one organism
--sometimes referred to as a super- or supra-organism, in which
individual bees are compared to the individual cells of an
organism." Food sharing inside a hive, he writes, is "dynamic
and continuous." "A hungry bee says, in her own special way, Can
you spare some food? If the behavioral answer is yes, the donor
bee spreads her mandibles and disc