Last night's meeting on
Clan Apis involved opinionated discussion on Nyuki's fears, whether people are social or solitary creatures and more. One thing many of you guys learned from the book that you hadn't known before...bees start out as pupas! Also, Megha didn't know that honey was bee vomit. You'll never eat honey the same way again! Emily's favorite funny moment occurred when Sisyphus the dung beetle and Nyuki were discussing what would happen if Nyuki stung anyone. Basically, she would die! Suddenly, Nyuki was no longer brave and demanded that Sisyphus make a spot for her behind his huge dung ball!
We also learned that bees see flowers in ultraviolet light; therefore the flowers look different than how we would see them. Everyone looked at pictures of flowers and drew how they thought bees would see them. Below are the pictures that everyone looked at (next to their bees-eye view counterparts) They were taken from
this site.
