Insects {bee} can beat wings at 200 beats per second, under muscle-tension control. Bees can calculate orientation over ground by angle Sun makes with horizon at highest point {azimuth system}, which varies over year.
Bees and ants have males {drone, arthropod}|.
Bombus bees {bumblebee} loudly vibrate wings and thorax to shake pollen from flower anthers {buzz pollination}. They push pollen along body into leg pollen holders.
Bees {honeybee} can make honey in colonies in hives. Honeybees do not vibrate wings or body. Colonies are dying at higher percentage now {colony collapse disorder}.
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