Why bees buzz?

They drink too much??

Finally something other than politics

It is the rapid beating of the wings that causes the buzzing.

Nope..but I know what's a bee-do...

i don't know but i do love your profile pic.

Nice try,but nope.

Gard Otis, a professor of environmental biology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, who studies bee behaviour, ecology and evolution, explains.


Bees buzz for two reasons. First, the rapid wingbeats of many species create wind vibrations that people hear as buzzes. The larger the bee, the slower the wingbeat and the lower the pitch of the resulting buzz. This is a phenomenon of the wingbeats and not specifically of bees--some flies, beetles, and wasps also have buzzy flight caused by their wingbeats.

In addition some bees, most commonly bumblebees (genus Bombus), are capable of vibrating their wing muscles and thorax (the middle segment of their body) while visiting flowers. These vibrations shake the pollen off the flower's anthers and onto the bee's body. Some of that pollen then gets deposited on the next flower the bee visits, resulting in pollination. The bee grooms the remainder of the pollen onto special pollen-carrying structures (on the hind legs of most bees) and takes it back to the nest to feed to the larvae.

I think its the drugs

I'll tell you all if you really want to know?

Can't argue with Gard Otis!

Nope, not if it's going to be a lame joke. If it is actually funny, sure...

Well,you'd buzz too if you had your honey between your legs!

there horn is broke?

relax Rod. It's a man

Awww!!! I wanted to see how that would go.