Hairy Glider

 

 

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What could be this hairy looking picture be? It's a bee's wing!

A bee has four wings on it, two are in the rear and are small. The ones in the front are bigger and are attached to the small ones by hooks called hamuli. 

As a bee gets older, it actually has wings that become more and more tattered while young ones have fairy intact wings. (Doesn't hugely affect it when its doing its job).

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If you're assuming that bees flap their wings up and down like birds in order to fly, you are

dead wrong. Unlike what most of us assumed, bees flap their wings almost as if it was a helicopter (though not entirely horizontal like helicopters). In a unique fashion, bees make their wing's angle in a certain degree to create small vortex-like shape with the wind. These have lower pressure than the air pressure around them and thus bees are able to fly. 

 

 

 

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