TIL: A Bumblebee’s Buzz Is Basically a Superpower | Today I Learned

all bees buzzed but bumblebees are one
of the very few types of bees that
actually take that buzzing sound and use
it like a secret weapon to get pollen in
fact what the bumble bee is doing is
sonication
buzz pollination it’s a technique that
it’s adapted to get pollen that other
bees can’t get certain flowers are
specially adapted to keep their pollen
high up in the flour and a bumble bee
can’t actually reach that with his legs
or with its tongue so what it needs to
do is vibrate to get that pollen to fall
down and how this works is they unhinge
their wings from their flight muscles
and vibrate their muscles really really
rapidly creating an angry that causes
the pollen to fall down onto their
bodies
then they fly onto another flower and do
the same thing that’s a superpower as
far as I’m concerned for bumblebees you
have a regulator in your mouth you’re
wearing a mass so it’s not coming in
your nose you’re not breathing it in yet
you’re smelling hydrogen sulfide and
it’s actually going through the pores in
your skin