In this short tale from Jami's Baharestan, a red hornet seizes a honeybee, meaning to make it prey. The bee laments that it is of little worth compared with the abundant nectar and honey it produces, urging the hornet to prefer the sweetness over the small insect itself. The hornet answers that the bee is honored precisely because it is the source: if that is nectar, you are its mine; if that is honey, you are its wellspring. The concluding verses generalize this into a Sufi teaching about origin (asl) and derivative (far'): the true seeker, on receiving a message or greeting, turns away from mere signs and toward union with their sender, abandoning the branch to return to the root. This node makes explicit the source-versus-branch allegory that the prose tale embodies, so learners can distinguish it from the neighboring bee, fly, and honey allegories in Attar and Sanai, where the insect symbolizes worldly attachment rather than a wellspring of essence.