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    Scientists once argued that bees could not fly based on mathematical calculations of their weight and wing size. However, bees were observed flying. Bees achieve flight through rapid wing beats of 240 per second over a 90 degree arc, generating bursts of lift. They also direct airflow downwards from their wings. While their flight may seem chaotic, bees employ unique aerodynamic techniques adapted to their size and needs for various phases of flight.

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    Scientists once argued that bees could not fly based on mathematical calculations of their weight and wing size. However, bees were observed flying. Bees achieve flight through rapid wing beats of 240 per second over a 90 degree arc, generating bursts of lift. They also direct airflow downwards from their wings. While their flight may seem chaotic, bees employ unique aerodynamic techniques adapted to their size and needs for various phases of flight.

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    Scientists once argued that bees could not fly based on mathematical calculations of their weight and wing size. However, bees were observed flying. Bees achieve flight through rapid wing beats of 240 per second over a 90 degree arc, generating bursts of lift. They also direct airflow downwards from their wings. While their flight may seem chaotic, bees employ unique aerodynamic techniques adapted to their size and needs for various phases of flight.

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    11/27/2018 Why Bees Can’t Fly?

    - PerfectBee

    Why Bees Can’t Fly?

    Course Progress
    21.21%

    The Science of Bees


    Why Bees Rock!

    The Incredible Diversity of Bees

    The Anatomy of Bees

    Honey Bee Genetics

    How Honey Bees Reproduce

    The Honey Bee Life Cycle

    Exploring the Process of Pollination

    The Secrets of Honeycomb

    How Bees Use Pheromones

    Why Bees Can’t Fly?

    The Common Races of Honey Bees

    Section Test : 1.1 The Science of Bees

    The Life of Bees


    The Role of the Drone Bee

    The Role of the Queen Bee

    The Role of the Worker Bee


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    Inside and Out of the Beehive

    How Bees Sense and React to Their World

    Why and How Bees Forage

    How Do Bees Make Honey?

    Sticking with Propolis

    Understanding The Honey Flow

    Fat Bees and the Winter Cluster

    Why and How Bees Swarm

    Section Test : 1.2 The Life of Bees

    About Beekeeping
    The Philosophy of Natural Beekeeping

    Beekeeping with Kids

    The Growth Urban Beekeeping

    Understanding Bee Stings

    Finding Beekeeping Clubs and Mentors

    Beekeeping and The Neighbors

    Top Beekeeping Books For Your Bookshelf

    Responsible Beekeeping

    Section Test : 1.3 About Beekeeping

    Joining Bees in Flight


    The story of ight is one that has always fascinated man. Well before the Wright
    Brothers (who, incidentally, were not the rst to y – but that’s for another story!),
    man was curious about how to break free from the chains of gravity and soar. That
    curiosity arose from the fact that we can’t y naturally. We needed bright minds and
    impressive technology to grace the sky.

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    Of course, man always wanted to emulate what birds and insects do naturally – like
    the bee.

    Except….
    When one sees a bee y one tends to accept that bees can, in fact, y. But there was
    once a certain breed of scientist that continued to ask the question, even when faced
    with the obvious visual “proof”.

    Antoine Magnan studied bees

    He concluded that it is physically impossible for bees to y! He was subsequently


    joined by others who reached the same conclusion.

    There was a pesky problem, of course.

    Bees DO y.

    It was merely our lack of understanding that led to the conclusion that bees de ed
    the laws of physics.

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    Chaos and Mass


    Magnan was drawn to this theoretical conundrum largely by the rather obvious (to
    him) example of the bumble bee. Compared to a honey bee, the bumble bee has a
    thicker and heavier body. But the curious question of ight still applied to honey
    bees.

    With a purely scienti c and mathematical perspective on the ight of bees, we focus
    on factors such as weight, surface area of the wing, speed of the apping wings and
    so on. The application of these principles led Magnan to his conclusion.

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    Coupled with the mass of the bee, Magnan also expressed concern about the rapid,
    somewhat fragmented apping motion of the wings. This apparent chaos contrasts
    with the graceful gliding action of many birds.

    The Bee’s Secret


    One explanation is that bees embrace a different set of aerodynamic principles, as
    their ights progress. For example, as they leave the hive they are light and quick.
    They eventually load up with pollen and nectar and become heavier. But they also
    need to y quickly and directly at some points of their ight path, such as when
    ying to a ower and and then slowing down to a hover.

    How do honey bees differ in ight?

    Many insects and birds use large, sweeping strokes of their wing to achieve and
    maintain ight. With the honey bee, things are not quite so ef cient and they
    use shorter, quicker aps of their wings.

    Typically, insects ap their wings through a wide arc, often over 160 degrees. They do
    so relatively slowly, at least compared to the bee. A honey bee restricts the arc of her
    wing ap to around 90 degrees, but at a rate of 240 times per second. This approach
    supports varying degrees of lift during the start, middle and end of each ap of the
    wings.

    Beyond the arc and speed, bees use some other techniques too. Their wings divert
    air on the trailing edge, such that it ows downwards. The resultant eddy creates an
    upwards thrust on the wing.

    This alone won’t create enough lift, especially at the start of ight. So, at takeoff time
    a bee will thrust her wings above her back, pushing the air between them aside
    quickly. When the bee returns her wings downwards there is a brief lack of air – and
    she has lift.

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    Despite the claims of scientists of yesteryear, we are going to maintain our stance
    that bees can y!

    Movie Time
    Here’s a fun video explaining some of this visually, albeit with a bumble bee as the
    chief actor…

    Bee Flight, Facts about how bees y

    And here’s the honey bee doing her thing…

    as featured on Gizmodo: WOW! Bee's look amazi…

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