Aeronautical engineers had previously “proven” that
bees cannot fly.  So Michael Dickinson, an insect
flight expert and colleagues at Caltech in Pasadena,
California, US, decided to investigate the forces
actually at work during honeybee flight.  Combining
robotic modelling with slow-motion videos of airborne
honeybees may have helped researchers explain the
curious aerodynamics of bee flight.

See a video of a bee in a flap:
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/dn8382.avi

Secrets of bee flight revealed
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8382

Joe Waggle ~ Derry, PA
‘Bees Gone Wild Apiaries'
My Site: http://www.biologicalbeekeeping.com
Organic Bee Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Organicbeekeepers/
Feral Bee Project: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FeralBeeProject/



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