How high can a bee fly?

Answer 1

i use to fly F-17's upon landing the filters where full of dead Bees. so use your imagination how high that flys.

Answer 2

1. A honey bee will not fly much higher than the height of any obstacle in it's path. The bee will learn to fly straight out from its colony at high speed and be most surprised if it strikes an new obstacle such as you standing in the way. It may lash out and you will receive a sting so be careful when walking close to the front of a busy beehive.
Mating drones will fly up to 30mtrs above ground to find a queen and can go much higher if warm rising thermal air carries them so.

2. Bees can fly much higher than they do, so we don't really know the upper limit. If we go by the altitude at which bees occur, they get into the Himalayas, so we can say that some species will fly in areas that are thousands of feet above mean sea level. If there's anything that seems to be a limiting factor, it's temperature. Bees have very high body temperatures (a honeybee drone, for example, has a thoracic temperature of about 125 degrees F while flying), and they can't sustain themselves long if the temperature is low, as it would be at extremely high altitudes. Of course, live insects of other types can be found in the upper atmosphere, when the wind currents are right and the insects are tiny enough that they don't need to flap to stay airborne--they're just carried aloft by the winds. They go into a sort of aerial hibernation, thawing out if and when they drop down to warmer atmosphere. Because of this, insects and other arthropods like mites and spiders can get higher into the atmosphere than any other members of the animal kingdom (anything larger would be unable to stay aloft once it was too cold to flap its wings).

Answer 3

Maybe a better answer is that they can fly up to any flowers which they particularly like, and which grow near the summits of mountains. I would just add that they would be most likely to climb just to the altitude where perpetual snow sets in (usually below the summit of very high mountains. But pockets of plant habitat can occur even among exposed rocks near the summit. Also, there must be some kind of a place relatively nearby for the bees to live, and make a hive (unless they are bumblebees and sort of live by themselves). That might limit the access of bees at mountain peaks.

Answer 4

Bees can only fly about 10 metres high and its because of their sensitivity to the air pressure as they fly higher.

Answer 5

In 1996 Charlie Ellington at Cambridge college confirmed that vortices created by many bugs’ wings and non-linear outcomes have been a considered necessary source of carry; vortices and non-linear phenomena are notoriously confusing aspects of hydrodynamics, which has made for sluggish progression in theoretical wisdom of insect flight. In 2005 Michael Dickinson and his Caltech colleagues studied honey bee flight by ability of extreme-speed cinematography and a widespread robot mock-up of a bee wing, which "proves bees can fly.

Answer 6

Well last time i visited mars, i saw one up there but he was bloody exhausted, but i guess thats about as high as a bee can fly.

Answer 7

Not as high as u might think. Not much higher then the tree tops. Lots of reason.They stay pretty close to their hive and air pressure does play a small part.But mostly they all have a job to do and it has to do with building and takeing care of their queen and the hive.And why am I always the last to answer? Oh hum

Answer 8

Who says bee can fly ?don't ask stupid questions just concentrate on Ur studies bee wont sting you!!

Answer 9

as long as it can keep breathing, then it can fly as high as it can flap its wings fast enough to keep it airborne. i dont think anyone has ever attached an altimeter to a bee...

then again, how many flowers are there at 60,000 feet?

Answer 10

I imagine it could fly a lot higher than it does but it doesn't feel like it cos there aint no necter in the stratosphere