Do Bee's have knees?

Question

as in...."Peter thinks his new car is the bee's knees!"

Do bee's actually have knees and if so, what is so good about them?

Answer 1

i think only vertebrates have knees. bees just have three segments in their legs and the joints appear like knees.
they help them to walk inside the hives and on flowers since they cant walk with stiff legs. they might also provide them the force to take off, much like our knees power us to jump up higher.

Answer 2

Nope, no knees on our bees.

However, here is a brief explanation of where the expression came from...
The Oxford English Dictionary records the expression bee's knee as meaning the type of something small or insignificant from 1797. The plural form is US slang dating from the 1920s, when there was an explosion of terms meaning 'the acme of excellence': compare the cat's whiskers/pyjamas. The first example is dated 1923. Some of these have lasted, and some have not (the flea's eyebrows, the canary's tusks).

Answer 3

Since the discovery that bees do not have knees, only capless joints, and the unavailability to obtain eye laser correction the term for something nifty would be a "kewl juel".

Answer 4

No. It does not have knees. Insect legs are not made of bones, but only tissues. It is very fragile, hence peter thinks about his car.

Answer 5

uhhhhhhh, yeah. Not really sure what's so good about them, but if you're refering to the antiquated term "You're the bee's knee's", then that was meant to mean that someone was a fine person or just fine.

Answer 6

bees are insects, which are invertebrates, so no, because the knee is a commom name for the bone patella.