The Flight Of Bees

Prof. Marey estimates that the wings of a bee víbrate one hundred and ninety times a second, and that such a number of wing-beats should carry the bee a mile a minute. This experiment was managed by fastening a bee in such a way that its wings were free tö move, one of them lightly touching tt rotating cylinder covered with smooth, blackened paper. But it has been proved that bees rarely do fly more than twenty or thirty miles an hour, and any practical bee keeper will teil you that, unless there are plenty of flowers within two miles of his hives, the business is not a success. Bees have been known to fly from an land across seven miles of sea to the nainland, but it was noticed they were greatly exhausted on their return.