Bees v Wasps
The Infinite Monkey Cage
The Myth of Bees
A bumblebee with a full stomach is about 40 minutes from starvation. A running man will burn the calories in a Mars bar in an hour of running. But if you had a man-sized bumblebee, it would burn the calories in 30 seconds of flying. Their whole life is lived on a kind of knife edge between being full and being starving. If she runs out of energy, she can't find enough flowers to feed herself. Then she's reduced to walking, and then she's in big trouble.
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