MayBe Art MAPS FLYING BEES
Rainer Maria Rilke in the Duino Elegies writes about “bees of the invisible” realizing what we cannot see appears when we make it.
Rebecca Allan
Bumblebee’s Flight Path
2012, Acrylic on Canvas
40″ x 60 ”
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Dr Rainer Klages from Queen Mary’s School of Mathematical Sciences explains that velocity – speed in a given direction – is the key to how bees stay safe when seeking food.
Rapid oscillations created by a bee flapping its wings 130 times a second, affects the air around them while flying in a sea of vortexes moving against the main current of the air.
Bees are a crucial part of wildlife communities – known as ecosystems – because they pollinate plants in their search for their food, nectar and pollen from flowers. Worldwide, up to 40 per cent of the world’s food production is due to pollination by wild bees, which include the bumblebee.