Why bumblebees fly

For bugs, it isn't so simple. The wing sweeping is a bit like a partial spin of a "somewhat crappy" helicopter propeller, Dickinson said, but the angle to the wing also creates vortices in the airlike small hurricanes. The eyes of those mini-hurricanes have lower pressure than the surrounding air, so, keeping those eddies of air above its wings helps the bee stay aloft.

Other studies have confirmed that bees can flyin one of the more colorful projects , in , a Chinese research team led by Lijang Zeng of Tsinghua University glued small pieces of glass to bees and then tracked reflected light as they flew around in a laser array. But now, Dickinson says, researchers are more interested in the finer points of how insects control themselves once they're in the air. Those studies will be especially important for a fleet of robotic insects in development, including robobees created by a team at Harvard University.

Got a question? How Bumblebees fly has been in the list of unanswered questions by scientists as early as the s. It was not until the s when scientists finally figured it out. Like robots capable of solving problems at an inhuman rate, bumblebees are also similar in a sense that they can flap their wings at super-fast rates. A bumblebee flaps its wing in a circular motion.

As pressure goes down, more air comes in to fill the void it left behind. The low-pressure zone invites the air beneath it to go upwards. This goes to say that the wings of the bees do not carry the bees themselves. Rather, they use the motion of their wings in order to create a vortex wherein they can be carried by the air beneath them. Bumblebees are really interesting creatures because of the way they fly.

That would be important and helpful. What, incidentally, is the smallest particle? Speaking to the gullible nature of humanity.. The laws of physics have been revised to correct errors in the past so if indeed there was a legitimate error that made it so insect flying was a violation of the laws of physics.. Science has proven many times that what it once claimed to be proven true was never proven, or true.

It builds models of nature and reality based on our current best evidence. So it is always rational and justified to accept scientific findings. New discoveries complement the old and usually widen the scope of their validity. This phrase is always used by people who are critical against science that has a personal agenda behind it all, and they do not only expose their ignorance while being at it.

I believe very much in the truth of science. Bees mindlessly hovering not flying is too lengthy and complicated a topic to explain in an already very long blog. You see, worker bees are the most important bees in the colony, but they are sterile and cant reproduce at all.

Evolution should predict that mutation should be passed along to the next generation of workers, but as you know, only the queen bee has the babies. Only hundreds if not thousands of scientific research is in circulation to explain this not-so-minor issue. So is the rest of nature. Every cell of it. Apparently we humans are gifted with our strong convictions and we stick to them. Either God has chosen this to be our nature, or natural selection has found this to be crucial for our species.

Maybe we did need it. But the numbers are turning away from it, Jim. And my daughters! Forget it. They are perfectly wonderful, utterly moral creatures, full of compassion, and no god needed.

I teach critical thought and take wisdom wherever I find it. I find value and joy in compassion. No sublime Intelligence needed. Humans are not turning away from it, they are using the same stupidity to cling into new forms of dogma. Workers are unfertilized eggs. Mutations are passed down from the breeding bees, which generate the workers. Mutations that originate in the workers are not passed down.

Fundamentally, it relies on you accepting a short answer that gets you to stop thinking about the question. The flying bumble bee would break the laws of physics if the wings did not do their job of allowing flight……not so fast there, no laws of physics would ever be broken even if it flight was assisted via levitation, since it could be using laws that was not known to science today! It is a case of the scientists concerned thinking they were smarter than they really are and not applying any critical thinking.

Rather than realising that there is something wrong with their flight model. Something missing or some yet to be discovered aerodynamic effect. It just shows their arrogance.

I think Chris is right. Dragonfly wings have tubes in them. They are not for blood flow. Evidently they are for sound vibration. They Buzz. I would put forward that Bees ride on sound waves and create low pressure above themselves creating lift.

Karl Smallwood wins the March. We do not fully understand how high frequencies interact with gravity. Observe the flight patterns of most animals with wings able to fly and you will see a distinct difference between how things like bees and humming birds fly compared to others which flap wings much slower. Two things. First, well done on catching the grammatical error. Things like that, from people claiming to be writers, make me grit my teeth.

That conclusion is a non-sequitur. Well, missing the point, more exactly. Scientific fact or laws of physics have nothing to do with the point that is attempting to be made. So how does he? The message is that you can do anything you set your mind to doing.