The Bee Problem
As you may know from following my blog through the years, I post many different things - happenings from my life, humorous pieces, political ramblings, etc. You may also have noticed that I tend to mention God in many of these topics. It’s only when you wrestle with God-issues yourself that you can really begin to take ownership of your beliefs, and it is a God-issue I offer for your consideration today. The issue? Bees.
Have a look at this information about bee mating from http://plantphys.info/Plants_Human/bees/bees.html :
The mating flight follows a pattern. The virgin queen flies to a congregation area where hundreds or thousands of unrelated drones await. The drones pursue the queen and several mate with her in flight.
The drone mounts the queen, inserts his endophallus, and ejaculates his semen.
During ejaculation, the male falls back and his endophallus is ripped out of his body and remains attached to the queen.
Drones mounting later remove the previous drone’s endophallus and lose their own through similar matings. The emasculated drones die very quickly with their abdomens burst in this fashion.
So basically, if you’re a drone bee, you have your few seconds of sweet honey lovin’ with the queen, get your penis ripped off, and die because, well…you just got your penis ripped off.
I don’t think it’s heretical to admit that there may be some difficulty in reconciling the concept of a Loving Almighty Creator with the concept of a Creator who has designed the mating pattern of an innocent creature to end in death by dis-penis-ment.
Thoughts?
laughingattheslut responds:
Posted: April 29th, 2007 at 7:59 am →
How about saving some of your tears for the poor little worker bee instead. She either going to be worked to death in a month or die defending her home. Either way she gives up her life for a place that won’t even allow her to have sex.
On the other hand, a drone bee that actually has sex is taken care of his whole life so he can do five minutes of “work”. He has a built in self-destruct system so that one of the worker bees doesn’t have to die to get rid of him after he doesn the only thing that made him useful in the first place.
If you want a real sob story, look at lions. For the most part, a male lion has to kill some other man’s kid before he can get laid. Sometimes he gets a bit confused and kills his own kid so he can get laid again. I’ve always thought that one was pretty strange.
deb responds:
Posted: April 29th, 2007 at 8:32 am →
Well, I basically think that it’s because of the fall…sin entered the world and all (including the bee population) went to crap from it’s original design (a design that thankfully we will be a part of eventually).
In saying this, I’m assuming that all the men out there who are products of the fall are thankful that they may have to toil and sweat to get stuff done but the bee’s plight is not their own.
See guys, it’s not so bad is it? LOL
dmarks responds:
Posted: April 29th, 2007 at 10:26 am →
Just have one word for this: “ouch”
Andy responds:
Posted: April 29th, 2007 at 4:28 pm →
I think we found another animal that deserves to be an alcoholic. Mead anyone? It comes in pints!
dmarks responds:
Posted: April 29th, 2007 at 4:46 pm →
Or maybe the plot of a B movie.
Moonbeam responds:
Posted: April 29th, 2007 at 7:57 pm →
My first thought was lucky Queen Bee, but as I read further paragraphs my 2nd thought was OMG! Ya would kinda think the drone would wonder why his fellow drones phallus was left behind..err..still attached. Now a smart drone would buzzzz around there a bit and be a lookeyloo before he gets any honey-lovin’ at that hive.
Hmmm…G-d works in mysterious ways.
babybull40 responds:
Posted: April 30th, 2007 at 4:58 am →
why is the male is always getting the short end of the stick? It is all part of the process..And I can’t imagine having something ripped out of me…Oh a baby…that hurts too..lol