Flowering plants carry the male portion of their genetic material in their pollen. When bees fly from one flower to another, pollen is spread from plant to plant. If pollen from one flower is able to reach another flower of the same species, then that plant will be able to form seeds an...
1. True or false: Penguins can fly. False. None of the 18 species of penguins can fly, but their wings are still put to good use as flippers that help them swim quickly and avoid predators when they go hunting for fish. Read More: Birds Fly, Right? Meet 7 That Totally Can't 2....
The older female workers do just that! They're the field bees we see gathering pollen and nectar from flowers in the spring and summer. Nectar is the liquid that will be turned into honey back at the hive. Each day, these bees might fly several miles from the hive just to get nectar...
Learning about levers and how to apply the equations pertaining to their use is one of the more rewarding processes introductory physics offer. It includes a little bit about force and torque, introduces the counter-intuitive but crucial concept of multiplication of forces, and dials you i...
perform is calledplunge-diving. Other birds including gannets and pelicans also plunge-dive, but it is not a common foraging method in the animal kingdom. While kingfishers don’t generally hurt themselves on these dives that canreach up to 25 miles per hour, they do not come without risk....
This is the basic principle of echolocation. Bats make sounds the same way we do, by moving air past their vibrating vocal chords. Some bats emit the sounds from their mouth, which they hold open as they fly. Others emit sound through their nose. It's not fully understood how the bat'...
While professional data recovery usually requires years of experience and deep knowledge of the technical nuances of file systems and disk physics, learning the basics can help you set reasonable expectations for your data recovery software. In this article, we'll take a very high level look at...
As a drain fly stands near a lapping pool of water, oncoming waves can threaten to maul or submerge them, if they do not fly away to safety. In Fig.7b the fly does not move as the wave impacts its right legs, pins them to the floor, and passes over the top (\(t = 0\)–100...
robots, drones, and other machines. insects have advanced degrees in materials science, physics, and mass production. flies can measure pitch and yaw and recalculate on the fly to correct their flight. it's a model tested by millions of years of evolution. so how do flies... fly?
Foxes tend to align their bodies in a North Easterly direction when pouncing on prey, and in the cases when they do this they are more successful in their hunting [31]. Magnetic alignment has been documented in many insect taxa; this includes resting termites [6], mosquitos [32], bees [...