when you go into the country on a sunny
day the enchanting beauty of flowers
draws your
attention when you examine the flowers a
bit more closely you come across another
interesting
creature this is the honeybee the most
disciplined of Nature's
architects honey bees live in colonies
and produce one of the world's most
perfect Foods
honey they store the honey in the
hexagonal Honeycombs they
build but have you ever wondered why
bees always make their Combs
hexagonal mathematicians s the answer to
this question and after lengthy
calculations came to an interesting
conclusion the best way of building a
storehouse with the greatest capacity
but using the least possible amount of
materials is to make the walls
hexagonal let us consider the other
shapes if bees built their Combs as
cylinders or as pentagonal prisms then
gaps would emerge between them and less
honey could be stored in the Combs
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a honey store of triangles or squares
could be built without leaving any
gaps but here mathematicians realized a
crucial
point of all these geometric shapes the
one with the shortest circumference is
the
hexagon for this reason although they
cover the same area Le material is
needed for hexagons than for squares and
triangles in short a hexagonal comb is
the best shape for ensuring maximum
storage capacity with minimum
wax another surprising fact about bees
is cooperation in building their
cones when someone sees a completed comb
he may well imagine that it was built as
a single
block but bees actually start building
their Combs from completely different
points hundreds of bees set about
building the comb from three or four
different
places they continue building until they
meet in the middle there is not the
slightest imperfection at the
juncture bees also calculate the angle
of the individual cells to each other
when building their
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comb the backto back comb cells are
always built at an angle of 13° to the
ground that way both sides of the comb
slope upwards this angle prevents the
honey spilling out of the
Combs wherever we go in the world honey
bees manage this extraordinary
architecture perfectly every
time and they do it in the depths of The
Hive in pitch dark where sunlight cannot
reach
there is a very interesting truth here
bees exhibit these extraordinary
characteristics from the moment they are
born they do not learn over time by
observing the comb structure and
direction from the moment they open
their eyes they possess the
skill so who is teaching these this
architectural
art
the answer to this question is given in
the Holy
Quran in this book which God sent down
to men to show them the true path he
reveals the secret of honeybee's superb
abilities your lord inspired the
bees make hives in the mountains and in
the trees and in what they
build then each of all the
fruits and walk in the ways of your lord
submissively from their bellies comes a
drink with different colors which
contains healing for
mankind most surely there is a sign in
this for people who
reflect the secret of animals
extraordinary skills is the inspiration
given them by
God and this applies to all living
things not just the
honeybee we can see this truth more
clearly when we examine other architects
in
nature