The Applications

Knowing how bees fly can aid in developing and designing propellers/wings on aircrafts that are more stable and agile in the air (Phillips, 2005). Aircrafts modeled after bees have the potential to carry large or heavy loads of cargo over long distances while still staying relatively stable and airborne. This introduces opportunities for disaster relief in the sense that more supplies would be able to reach affected areas. It also opens up possibilities of militarized drones that would need to maneuver over rough or difficult terrains.

With that said, having a basic understanding of how bees (as well as other insects) fly is important because it provides an explanation to a question that baffled scientists in prior years. Despite what The Bee Movie claims, bee flight does not break the rules of physics.
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(https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/06/08/recreating-the-human-gender-hiearchy-in-bee-movie/)

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