Honey Bee!

There was a honey bee hive in our garden. Somewhere I read about dance patterns honey bee shows. To experiment and check how one honey bee find source of honey and inform other bees about it…we have taken some sugar mixed water (such idea found from net) and try to see practically how it happens.Was ready with binacular and constantly under observation for more than a hour our patience ended and left water there with hope that bee will find and use it. Flop experiment!

Then after some days found a book “Mathemagic” by Nagendra Vijay and found amazing facts about this great mathematician. I was in confusion how will I start this topic with Ash then found clue from that article only.

First I took paper,pencil,scale and compass and show Ash how mummy needs all these to draw perfact hexagone and then ask her to start drawing hexagone from two different points on paper. Then she amazed knowing fact that Honey bee prepare perfact hexagon cells without any instrument mummy have used and never do mistake even they start building hives from different points.

Then our discussion concerntrated on why hexagone only and not square,circle or triangle or not any other shape? It was became interesting episode for her becouse one by one amazing facts came in front of her about honey bees and their working just from this question why hexagone? !!!!!!!! How it save their costly wax? How it gives facility to save maxium honey in comparison to other shapes? How it gives strength to hive? How it is even useful in health of hive? Etc. How two hexagonal prizam joins back to back is shown in a picture in this book but it might difficult to understand for her but then her menifestation or what , all bees left hive in our garden. One day our gardener took it from outer wall of our house and then Ashna has real hive in her hands!!!!!

Then she came to know about three kinds of honey bee….Queen,Male & worker and find their role and very much impressed by worker’s role. How hard working and devoted they are! Their dance patterns,their working in co-operation,their care for larvah and how they find honey and produce wax. Though it becoming bit complex for her later I was so much mesmerized by this creature that could not left collecting more and more info about them and keeping Ash informed how much she can understand.

Earlier I have thought about taking this topic as a project and will prepare report like that….but Ash the craft lover made front cover page only and as writing is boring for her she left it in mid way. Anyways,knowledge is power ,to feel something is more powerful and keeping proof of everything not possible and not neccessary.