Story of Bee Sisters - Bee Peers & Bee Teammates
My dad has bees. Today I went to his house and he showed me all of the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off of a 5-gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could help them and he said he was sure they wouldn't survive. Casualties of the honey collection I suppose.
I asked him again if we could at least get them out and kill them quickly, after all, he was the one who taught me to put a suffering animal (or bug) out of its misery. He finally conceded and scooped the bees out of the bucket. He put them in an empty Chobani yogurt container and put the plastic container outside.
Because he had disrupted the hive with the earlier honey collection, there were bees flying all over outside.
We put the 3 little bees in the container on a bench and left them to their fate. My dad called me out a little while later to show me what was happening. These three little bees were surrounded by all of their sisters (all of the bees are females) and they were cleaning the sticky nearly dead bees, helping them to get all of the honey off of their bodies.
We came back a short time later and there was only one little bee left in the container. She was still being tended to by her sisters. When it was time for me to leave we checked one last time and all three of the bees had been cleaned off enough to fly away and the container was empty.
Those three little bees lived because they were surrounded by family and friends who would not give up on them, family and friends who refused to let them drown in their own stickiness and resolved to help until the last little bee could be set free.
Bee Sisters. Bee Peers. Bee Teammates. ❣️
We could all learn a thing or two from these bees
An obviously fabricated story written by an uninformed emotionalist. The author ascribes human characteristics to honey bees. The rescue of the three little bees was not a rescue at all. The sister bees, like the socialist they are, were only after the honey coating their sisters bodies. The rescue was simply a byproduct of honey recovery. Anyone who has managed honey bees has seen those "caring" sister bees routinely trampling and drowning their sister bees in honey in their frenzied response to spilled honey. They will then then benevolently lick all the honey off the bodies of those they have just drowned. Sister honey bees in healthy colonies routinely throw sisters out of the hive at the slightest sign of ill health. BTW not all honey bees are female as the uninformed author believes them to be. About 20% of any healthy colony can be male drones, who do nothing but mate with the opposite sex and are lavishly feed and tended for that service. Anyone capable of lending any creditability to or drawing a moral lesson from this obviously fabricated fairy tail are mentally incompetent.