My pal Eva was kind enough to bring an interesting New York Times article to my attention today regarding the honeybee waggle dance, distracted bees, and the power of memory.
3.25.2008
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My pal Eva was kind enough to bring an interesting New York Times article to my attention today regarding the honeybee waggle dance, distracted bees, and the power of memory.
"For the bee, honey is the ultimate reality. It represents the fulfillment of her life mission, the triumph over her enemies, the continuity of the hive, the justification for working herself to death. Honey is to bees what money in the bank is to people—a measure of prosperity and well-being. But there is nothing abstract or symbolic about honey, as there is about money, which has no intrinsic value. There is more real wealth in a pound of honey, or a load of manure for that matter, than all the currency in the world. We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance."—Wm. Longgood, The Queen Must Die
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