I love honey bees.

Honey bees are cute tiny creatures that we are familiar with. If you think that they are nothing special, then you are definitely wrong!

They have black and yellow stripes bodies and wings let physicist confuse with the Flight Theory; their bodies are too big and wings are too small, but they still can fly freely in the sky. Every bee has long tongue that is as long as half of their body.

Honey bees have two sets of visual. There are two large compound eyes, each compound eye are build by six thousand and nine hundred tiny hexagon eyes, each hexagon eye can identify light, color, and the location of the sun by itself. Compound eyes can accurate grasp of objects’ motion, and the furs between eyes can distinguish wind direction and wind speed. There are three eyes arrange into a triangle, those eyes are light detectors, they let bees able to fly in correct direction.

Honey bees have two antennas; they are more sensitive than our nose a hundred times, and each antenna can search the smell alone, just like our ears, you can say honey bees have three-dimensional sense of smell.

Honey bees have a sophisticated navigation system that uses the sun and landmarks as points of reference. The system allows them travel three miles from the hive in search of food without losing their way back home. The angle of sun change one degree each four minutes, you may think sometimes bees get lost on the way home, but it is not true, the system can calculate difficult formulas that can bring the bee home safely. It is quite amazing! Honey bees are also able to direct other bees in the hive to the food source through a remarkable form of communication called the "waggle dance".

After observe diligently, you could find out honey bees’ matchless! Honey bees are also considerable to nature.      

Honey bees have unique lifestyle. They live in swarm; there is only one queen and lots of worker bees. Honey bees are the symbols of Feudalism, Monarchy, corporatism, Capital Industry, Business Model, and Socialists.

Honey bees are pollination specialists, one out of three foods that we eat were pollinating by them, for example, Haagen-Dazs, a famous ice cream brand, there’ are twenty five favors out of sixty favors need bees’ pollinate. One group of honey-bees can pollinate three million flowers in one day! And about ninety percents of crops are pollinating by them. Every year, honey bees’ pollination can create business worth over 60,000,000,000 U.S. dollars.

Honey-bees can produce honey. Honeys are delicious, so people beekeeping. Chinese start beekeeping three thousands years ago. Egyptians start beekeeping much earlier Chinese, at B.C. two thousands and four hundreds years, Egyptians’ bee-keeping techniques were already developed mature. Egyptians are the first nation let bees migrate in order to increase honey production. Beeswaxes are one of the important materials to build mummies. Pharaohs’ wedding use honeys, and this tradition spread to the Middle Ages in Europe, newlywed couples needs to drink honey wines for a whole month for pray good fortune and happiness, and it’s the origin of the word “honeymoon”.

What would happen if our world without bees? Albert Einstein had speculated before, if our world without bees, human would have only four years to live. No pollination, most of the plant won’t live longer, and then no foods; it’s the end of most of the creatures, including the cockroaches.

If there are no bees, the first wave of immigrants from United Kingdom to Americas won’t survive, because the plants they bring to there need bees’ pollination. The world today would be much different.

You may think it is just a speculated by Einstein, but it’s happening every second without people knowing the reason, and it is really a serious thing.

In recent years, over one third of all honeybees in the U.S.A. have mysteriously vanished; around 800,000 hives disappear, it just likes a magic show. Some commercial beekeepers have reported losses of up to ninety percent since the end of 2006. The disappearance is not limited to the U.S.A. Large numbers of colonies have also been wiped out in parts of Canada, Europe, Asia and South America. In Croatia, it was reported that five million bees disappeared in less than 48 hours.

    The adult bees do not return home, leaving their queen, eggs and larvae to die because starve. Moreover, young nurse bees, whose job it is to stay in the hive and care for the new brood while the adults are out searching for food, desert their post and fly away. Such a dereliction of duty is unheard of unless the bee is diseased and leaves the hive to prevent it from infecting others.

When news of the vanishing honey bees, Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), started to filter through in newspaper reports at the beginning of 2007, some of the more fanciful theories for their disappearance ranged from cell phones messing up their sophisticated navigation system to an elaborate al-Qaida plot to wreck US agriculture. The news really scares people, at it also shows people care bees.

Although no one knew for sure what was causing the bees to perish, it spurred the launch of a global investigation. More credible suspects included exposure to genetically modified crops, pesticide poisoning, invasive parasites, malnutrition from pollinating vast tracts of crops with little nourishment, and the stress of being moved long distances. After a large number of experiments, the scientists are sure that Colony Collapse Disorder is not cause by a single and simple reason, but a complex and mixed reason that is unable to confirm so far today. It is a great potential that everything is cause by human.

Honey bees are really special and important to all of us; they bring lives to this world by pollination and work hard for wonderful honeys, I think their disappearance bring warning to us and human should start notice those small creature.

 I hope people who read this article can find out the beauty of honey bees.