A Look at Bees Through the Spectacles of Scripture

Sunshine sparkles on the dew covered leaves of a melon plant stretching its vines across the damp soil. A fragile blossom slowly opens its large orange pedals to reveal the delicate stigma and the stamen carefully laden with pollen. Deep down within the corolla from where the stigma and stamen sprout forth oozed a fresh sweet drop of nectar. Today will be the only opportunity for the flower to obtain enough pollen from another melon flower to fertilize at least one hundred seeds within the...