The Secret of Bees

Author: Kurihashi Megumi, Shinobu Nakaigawa
Translator: Jiang Xinghua
Country: Japan
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Publish Date: 2001-11-01
Features: On the day the bee sister is born, she is carefully cared for by the bee sisters, lapping up sweet honey with her mouth, and her damp fur is licked clean and combed neatly. In the dark of the hive, both can only vaguely see each other's figures, but they can confirm each other's appearance and understand each other's scent through various movements, mutually confirming that they are siblings hatched and molted from the same queen's eggs. The bee sister will say to the bee sister, "From today on, you must learn to work one by one and must become excellent worker bees!" On the second day of the bee sister's birth, she begins to work. The bee sister's wings have not yet dried, her veins are weak and powerless, and she cannot fly in the air yet. For the first two days, the bee sister must keep warm for the eggs that will hatch later, covering the hive. They must spread their wings and try their best not to let the cold wind blow into the hive, and they must mix among the bee sisters who are close together. On the third day, the bee sister observes how the bee sisters take care of the larvae and begins to take care of them herself. That is, the bee sisters fly back with nectar in their mouths, and the bee sisters take the nectar from the bee sisters' mouths and carry it into the hive room, or mix the nectar and pollen together to feed the larvae. On the sixth day, the bee sister realizes that something is changing in her body, and a wonderful saliva overflows from the pharyngeal gland in her head. The bee sister says, "There's nothing to be surprised about, just feed the saliva to the larvae." Around the 20th day, the bee sister gets help from the bee sister and now has to provide help to the bee sisters who were born half a month later.