Without bees, we would be in a terrible fix. They are the world's primary pollinator. Every culture that had indigenous populations of bees kept apiaries because they are essential to their way of life. Man and bee share an essential and symbiotic relationship. That's why things like colony collapse disorder is so serious. If we lose bees, we're in the shit. and if you think the Arabs and Persians and Indians and Central Asian nomads didn't understand that, you don't know as much about those cultures as you think. Beekeeping is an ancient, honorable and essential profession.

Rather than calling Arabic music bee-like to be an insult, it should be considered an honor. Bees are beautiful.