Q 16:68
وَأَوْحَى رَبُّكَ إِلَى النَّحْلِ
and your Lord (O Muhammd) inspired the Bee.......
Arabic word "Nahl" can mean "Bee" (singular) or "Bees" (plural) depending on teh context it is being used in,
أَنِ اتَّخِذِي مِنَ الْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا
....that to take (her) homes from the mountains....
the Arabic imperative "ittakhidee" in the singular feminine in which the command is given to a female bee to take/build her homes in the mounatains and whatever else that follows in the verse,
وَمِنَ الشَّجَرِ وَمِمَّا يَعْرِشُونَ
.....and from the trees and from whatever (kind) of trellis.....
Q 16:69
ثُمَّ كُلِي مِن كُلِّ الثَّمَرَاتِ
....then eat you (female bee) from all the benefits..........
Here again the female bee is being address to eat from all the benefits provided to her,
فَاسْلُكِي سُبُلَ رَبِّكِ ذُلُلاً
....so then travel you (female bee) through the paths of your Lord gently.............
She is told to travel though the paths of her Lord gently,
يَخْرُجُ مِن بُطُونِهَا شَرَابٌ مُّخْتَلِفٌ أَلْوَانُهُ فِيهِ
.....bringing out from her bellies a varied colored drink inside her.....
the clause now shifts explaining that from inside her bellies comes out a varied color drink. This also indicates that the female Bee has more than one belly or stomach.
شِفَاءٌ لِّلنَّاسِ
.......as a healing for mankind.......
The drink that comes out of her bellies is a healing for human beings. Now we know this drink is honey and the type of Bee spoken about is a Honey Bee,
إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَآيَةً لِّقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ
.....verily in that is indeed a sign for people who think
and here you have it, this is a sign is for those who think about its message,
We have learned numberous things here :
1) The Female Honey Bee is instructed by inpiration from G-d
2) The Female Honey Bee is who builds its homes
3) The Female Honey Bee has more than one belly in which the honey comes out from
4) The Honey is a healing for human beings
When it comes to the bee and the quran it's not just the word nahla that we're talking about here. the female implications occur many times. Not to mention that the quran told us that the bee has more then one belly something not known til recently.