On July 10, 1996, David Yarrow wrote:
Earlier The Buzz discussed the sharp population collapse of North America's beezz. Some folk wondered if beezz have a magnetic sense which is disturbed by geomagnetic changes. I posted a piece from my essay on Hazzards of Man-Made Magnetism titled Spin the Tale on the Dragon about magnetism, beezz and biology. That was dry, bare bones facts of science. Now the fun begins! Time to spin the tale on the honeybee.

Beezz use magnetism for far more than navigation. Their whole role in ecology and evolution is to harness magnetism as medium to store and transmit memory.

Plants are Mother of animals. In Nature, green gives birth to red. Plants are "loomen"—by photoynthesis, they store sunlight as sugar, releasing oxygen. Thus, sugar is beams of short-wave sunlight [l-l-l-l] captured by green chlorophyll and spun into electrons [o] that run around in long-wave 6-carbon rings [O-O-O-O-O...]. Plants freezze photon beams into carbohydrate crystals of biologic energy: sugar.

Without loomen, there are no "huemen".

In evolution, plants were pioneers to harness new, ever more complex chemistry and geometry to create new, more complex molecules, anatomical architectures and reproductive rituals. Gymnosperms—or evergreens—were the first plants to form seeds—a step beyond spore-bearing plants like moss and ferns. Gymnosperms rely on wind to fertilizze seeds—a chancy strategy.

While plants evolved seeds, animals evolved eggs. Exoskeleton shell and peripheral nerves turned outside in to become endoskeletal spine with central nervous system: the first reptiles. Serpent and egg are universal, archetypal symbol (e.g. Greek Oracle of Delphi).

These evolutionary innovations involve "turning inside out"—the 5-sided, phi-ratio geometry. DNA's spiral steps are built with 5-carbon pentose sugar rings as risers, so DNA and egg derive from five and phi geometry. In three dimensions, this creates the icosahedron [20 triangles, 5 in a vertex, 12 vertexes] and dodecahedron [12 pentagons, 3 in a vertex, 20 vertexes]

Next to appear in plant evolution were flowering plants—angiosperms. Vegetation mating rites were now clothed in bright color, sweet scent and intoxicating nectar. Now an ally was needed to carry male pollen from pistils to female eggs in ovaries. Beezz arrived to aid plant fertilizzation, reproduction and evolution. This sexual revolution in evolution gave greater control of genepool possibilities and probabilities of sex—the great game of chance all creatures play. [God does play dice with the universe; male and female are his cubes to roll.]

Six brings sex. As symbol, beezz' 3-lobed 6-leg bodies gather pollen & nectar—flowers' sex secretions —to store in 6-sided honeycomb nested hives. Honey is Nature's most concentrated carbohydrate; five times sweeter per cup than refined white sugar. Nectar brings ecstasy.

Beezz control their genetic evolution by limiting reproduction to one queen in each colony who mates only once. Immature females lacking sexual development are virgins, who transfer male pollen to female ovary to braid new memory into DNA's ever-evolving spiral staircase.

Magnetism is the medium of memory. Early computers used tiny iron donut magnets threaded on 6 wires as "core storage" memory. Modern PC's store data on disks in spinning magnetic rings. Each organism braids experience in chains of magnetic bubbles. Each species' write stories of Earth evolution journeys in this string of genetic code.

Huemans evolved this recordkeeping to a higher level of consciousness. English alphabet is universal, archetypal symbols for spirit manifest as biology—that is: DNA. The 26 (2 x 13) letters are a code to create a twin spiral staircase of encrypted memory. The last 3 letters (XYZ) are the chromosome letters. X & Y are female & male; Z is the lightning letter—where a new link is braided in the memory chain by electric male spark. In this holy Trinity, X & Y are Mother & Father; Z is the Son. Oxygen ("O + X & Y = gene"; where O is ovary) becomes magnetic in its ionizzed electric states, such as ozone [O3].

So beezz buzz becauzz they weave new links to the Z point of plants' genetic molecular memory chain. In sacred ritual, they carry male spark to dark female egg to braid a new bubble into magnetic memory. Thezze virginzz zzoom about on holy errandzz. Plants reward beezz holy labor with a taste of sweet sexual nectar ecstasy. No wonder beezz buzz in intoxicated frenzzy!

The stories do not end. Rather, they're set to music. Magnetic memory must be read in righteous ritual to generate coherent thought and form. So stories are spun and sung in song. DNA must be braided and read to proper tunes for molecular matter to dance in orderly orchestral harmony within cell membrane. Beezz sing as they zzing on wing to bring new genetic crossing (X). They're troubadours singing folk songs and love ballads.

On larger fractal scale, Earth herself has memoriez to harvest. Beezz alway hive on geomagnetically active sites. Old-time dowzzers with wooden Y rod knew beezz nest over underground water veins; the most productive hives sit where two such subterranean streamz cross (X). Modern science measurez significant shifts in DC geomagnetizm where dowzzerz' detect water. Modern dowzzers find beezz swarm on ley linez of the geomagnetic grid.

Like seed & egg, geomagnetic geometry is also 5-sided, phi-spiral symmetry. Earth's magnetic grid iz a crystal-like icosa-dodecahedral fractal nest. DNA dancez in rezonant synchrony to Gaia's geomagnetic symphony. Beelinez are Gaia's song linez.

So you can begin to see the fateful demizze of beezz is definite, powerful sign of Earth changez. Geomagnetizm's stabilizing crystal grid growz weak and wobbly—loozzing symmetry, synchrony and harmony.

So, what do beezz and magnetizzm have to do with Miracle, white buffalo calf born in Janezville, Wisconsin at the full moon on Aug. 20, 1994?

And how do magnetizzm and sugar empower nervezz to store memory in our brainzz?
[Hint: mem-branez]

~ David Yarrow, the green turtle