Why Is The Bee Bigger Than The Elephant?

The male African elephant weighs as much as 14,000 pounds or just over 6,000 kilograms. In contrast, the bee weighs 0.00025 pounds. This means that upto 56 million bees are needed to match the jumbo's weight. A single bee hive has upto 50 thousand bees. This also means that 56 million bees can make 1,120 hives or more. Let us pack this a little.

There is a saying that "the noise of a frog in the river will not stop an elephant from drinking water." This refers to one never allowing things blown out of proportion from distructing their focus. Another one says that "when an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick it." This refers to situations where when a strong person is in trouble, be it of a long or short term nature, even those they helped out along the way kick them or even want to trip them to fall harder. They pull them down to get ahead of them.

These are sayings but in the African bush, we all fear any swam of bees because of the lethal impact of their attack on us. A single bee will sting but most times, that won't leave permanent effects on its victim.

That tiny bee is what the elephant fears the most. A single bee humming around it will get it running like it's paid to do so. It has no way of confronting it and a single sting on the vulnarable ears is too painful for it to bear. In fact, communities living in areas visited by elephants, rear bees as a dual purpose insect. They effectively ward off elephant invasions on their farms whilst the farmers enjoy consuming the honey at no cost at all.

Whenever there is an elephant in the room, meaning that there is a big problem that is difficult to solve, the best way to overcome it is by finding it a bee so that it energetically leaves the room. This is a talent many people wish they could have.

We spend a lot of our time in finding the bee. That is the irony of life. It is the small things that matter the most.

The daily grind is more important than the huge profits we seek to reap. The first step to working out anything in life is of greater importance than the steps ahead when everything is moving like clockwork.

What happens when we have two elephants in the room? Do we find more bees or is one bee just as effective? If the bee is loud enough, both elephants will take off at the same time. This is what happens when we find the antidote for unrelated problems such as when we fail to arrive at a concensus in a meeting and if we don't, we get disolved as a committee or board. One bee is enough to get those two elephants out of the room. We love the allowances that we currently enjoy at every sitting and the stalemate is not a matter of life and death so it will only take one person vacating their earlier position and joining the guys supporting the lesser evil.

And what if the elephants meet with bees at night? Do they grope in the dark or do they have ready road maps to use at night? In the unlikely event that such a mishap befalls them, it may be a case of "every man for himself and God for us all" but they will have bolted. This is what happens when the best way to solve the problem is via an ambush.

When people illegally occupy private property and proceed to use it as if it belongs to them, the best time to move them out with minimum resistance is in the dead of the night when most are asleep. The authorities will get them out one by one and by morning, everyone will have left the area.

When we are not seeking bees to get elephants out of rooms, they are busy making honey. So from our 1,120 hives earlier, at an average of 20 kilograms of honey per hive, we can make 22,400 kilograms of honey. And at Kes. 300 a kilo, you make Kes. 6.7 million or more. These are from bees of equivalent weight to one elephant. Do you think that one elephant will fetch you the same amount of money having single handedly eaten what 15 cows consume? Not unless you are a poacher. I have my doubts and please don't kill them, they deserve to live too. So all factors kept constant, who is bigger now?