Apis Mellifer The Physics Of The Honeybee

The Honeybee (Apis mellifera) is an astounding insect that pollinates on a global scale and thus ensures the prosperity of plant life and animal life alike. However, its baffling how this insect maneuvers its tiny self against earth’s gravity and wind resistance contrary to its considerably small size. The average female Honeybee (pictured above) weighs in at 277 to 290 mg at adult emergence. As their wings are almost paper thin, they still manage to support the bee’s un-aerodynamic anatomy and hold up to the constant stress of everyday flights and vibrations as they collect nectar and pollen for their hive as well as communicating to other bees as to where a rich nectar flow is located at. As gravity is measured in at 9.8 m/s, another force is acting on the Honeybee during its flight, the honeybee has to fly against its own body weight in order to successfully accomplish its goals as this has proven to be difficult the honeybee endures anyways; consequently due to this nature the honeybee will work itself to death as will her sisters. The honeybee can also use physics to manipulate the pollen production of the flower. …show more content…
The vibrations will stimulate the flower causing it to literally launch its pollen into the air thus latching on to the fine hairs on the honeybees legs and abdomen as well as creating the perfect situation for plant