Spirit Guide of the day is Bee! Get your mind set on organization to complete the designs and ideas you have been wanting to finish. Complete these goals using diligence and dedication, but remember to take time to enjoy life. It will help to involve other people in your projects, particularly by helping with projects within your community. Now is a productive, fertile time for you both physically and creatively. Bees have been a mythical symbol for many cultures. In Hinduism, they relate to Vishnu, Krishna, and Kama. In Egypt, bees were a sign of royalty while the Celts associated bees with hidden wisdom. Bees are a sign for accomplishing the impossible and productive fertility. They are a reminder that projects are better for us when we take the time to enjoy them. The geometric shape of the honey comb has had mystical meanings as well including being a symbol of the heart and sweetness of life within our own hearts and a symbol of the sun. The Bee spirit guide reminds us to make our lives sweeter ourselves through completing goals and being a part of the community. No matter how great the dream we wish to complete, there is fulfillment when we pursue it. People who connect with Bee are industrious, committed people capable of being successful at anything they attempt. These individuals have a powerful effect on others and take a long time to get riled up, although can sting hard when finally provoked. Although self-sufficient, these souls work better when in coordinated teams.

Bees, Anthophila, are a type of insect related closely to wasps and ants. There are around 25,000 identified species of bee, but researchers estimate that there may be even as many as 40,000. These species include those such as the Honey bee pictured above, bumblebee, carpenter bee, apidae, and sweat bees. Around 4,000 species of bee are native to the United States. These bees are not those that make honey, but are extremely important as "super pollinators" which pollinate a large majority of our plants and crops. Some crops such as apples, watermelon, oranges, squash, cranberries, and more all require the bees pollination in order to reproduce. The Honeybee is called one of the "cultivated bees" due to humans interest in developing hives of honeybees for harvesting honey and beeswax. Millions of years ago, Bees were carnivorous insects more closely resembling wasps, however, when flowering plants began to grow on the planet, they adapted to feed solely on nectar and pollen. Pollen and nectar are rich, nutrient full resources that bees need to survive now. Pollination occurs when a bee feeds from a certain plant, gathers the pollen on its body and legs, then transfers this pollen to other plants that it feeds from throughout the day. Female bees even have a structure on their legs called a Pollen Basket that is not seen on either other insect. This basket is made up of rows of stiff hair along the leg that arch to create a hollow space on the outside of the bees' legs. Grains of pollen are trapped in this hollow, usually found on the back legs, and deposited on the other plants. The fuzzy hairs that cover bees also help to capture and transfer the pollen to other plants. Bees also have a specialized tongue that enables them to suck up nectar along with a crop in their throat for storing it until they get back to the hive where the nectar is turned into honey and eaten as food by the hive. Bees are particularly attracted to flowers that are blue, purple, or yellow and many bees will only feed from specific flowers. The preference for specific colors of flowers is due to the shorter wavelengths that the eyes of the bee can see. They see primarily blues, purples, and yellows. Often, this will help lessen competition for resources when bees feed from flowers that bloom at different times. There are many species of bees that are actually solitary and don't form hives. In these species, females will build nests in holes found in tree hollows, snail shells, and dead wood. Sometimes they will use mud, chewed leaves, and animal hairs to create nests on rocks or shrubby plants. These solitary bees hardly ever sting and the male bees don't even have stingers. The female stingers are not even long enough to penetrate human skin. This is because these solitary bees do not have a hive to defend, reducing the need for defensive or aggressive behaviors. Instead of producing honey, these solitary bee species will make a food mixed from pollen and nectar called "beebread". The eggs of solitary bee species are laid on pollen balls in the female's nest and will feast on the pollen and nectar in their larvae form. There are even parasitic bee species that will lay their eggs in the nests of other bees. It is species such as Honeybees and Bumblees which are social creatures and live in hives that possess specific, complex social structures. It is only these social bees that produce honey and can have up to 60,000 bees in a single colony. These colonies consist of a fertile queen, sterile worker females, and male bees called "drones." The Queen bee has only one role of laying eggs and can lay up to 2,000 eggs every day for up to 5 years. It is the worker bees that control how many eggs she lays by how much they feed her. Most of the worker bees are also female and work to clean the hive, collect food, feed the queen, care for the larvae, and build the honeycomb. Which job the worker bees do change with their age. A newly hatch bee will spend her first three days only cleaning, changing to feeding the larvae and queen after that. The first thing she does after hatching would be to clean her own cell for the next egg to be placed. Around ten days old, her wax glands will mature and she becomes a builder who works to construct the honeycombs. Between days 16 to 20, the female will take pollen and nectar brought in by older bees and organize them into the comb. Spending the next few days guarding the hive, the female worker will then become a food collector in her remaining weeks of life to bring in as much nectar and pollen as possible to the hive. Male workers, or Drones, are few in the colony, vastly outnumbered by the females. These males spend their first days being fed by the female workers before they will leave the hive to search for a queen. Large eyes have adapted to help them search and after they find and successfully mate with a queen, they will die. Some sting-less bees have a specialized job to help the other workers find resources for food. They will create a scent trail between a food source and the nest, bringing back a sample of pollen from the source, and telling it to the other bees using communication akin to dancing. This 'dancing' consists of the bee shaking and wiggling her tail which spreads the scent to the others. Researchers believe that the way she moves can tell what direction the food is in, while others believe that she is only shaking off the scent so they know what scent to search for. Inside a hive, bees will create the honeycomb structures from beeswax secreted by glands in the worker bees' abdomen. The workers will chew this wax and mold it into the 6-sided honeycomb cells that will form a sheet of honeycomb that can be up to 4 feet long. These honeycombs protect their larvae and store their pollen and honey. The honeycomb structures are very light when empty, weighing only a few ounces but can weigh many pounds when full of honey. The largest bee is called the Chalicodma Pluto and reaches up to 1.6 inches while the smallest is the Perdita Minima which only gets as long as 0.07 inches.