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something like its wings are too small for its body so how does it stay in air?

2007-06-18 10:49:48 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Zoology

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High speed film and good magnification have enabled scientists to observe a bee's wings in action. Once the wing beats were slowed down so they could be seen, the way the wings worked showed how efficient they were. Bees do not use their wings as birds do but have a very different action and the wings are more than big enough for the task.

2007-06-18 19:11:55 · answer #1 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1 0

A lovely joke, but just a joke. Obviously a bee's wings are quite sufficient to support its body when it flies. If you didn't know how wings work, you might think that the wings were too small and delicate to lift something as large and heavy as a Bumblebee, but that's your ignorance at work, not any failure on the part of the bee or its wings.

2007-06-18 20:41:58 · answer #2 · answered by John R 7 · 0 0

The great minds that work out what an object needs to fly made all their calculations and fed them into a computer and worked out that Bumble bees can't fly. Their body to wing area is not good enough. Just shows they don't know everything

2007-06-18 20:00:02 · answer #3 · answered by wizebloke 7 · 1 0

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. " - Mary Kay Ash

2007-06-18 18:04:04 · answer #4 · answered by Wolfy-chan 3 · 1 0

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