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The research team behind the project to translocate a 100 short-haired bumblebees in a bid to re-establish a population in the UK, has insisted that it has the full backing of the Swedish authorities despite widespread criticism.
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Good lord!
Anyway, the queens could have flown over on their own if the worst came to the worst.
A one... two-- A one... two... three... four...
Half a bee, philosophically,
Must, ipso facto, half not be......
by Brian Patrick Lawrence Pappa, pappa can you explain to me, Why oh why can a bumble bee fly? His wings are too small, And his bodies so big and all, So why and how can a bumblebee fly? My child, why oh why can a bumble bee fly? Yes his wings are far too small and his bodies so big and all. Hmm, oh me! How can the bumble bee possibly fly? Mamma can explain why the bumble bee flies. Well my child for me, This is no longer a mystery, you cannot possibly see, Why oh why the wonderful bumble bee, With his wings too small, Yes and his body too big and all, Can possibly fly, The bumble bee he just flies and flies, By simply not asking mummy why.
In 1934, French entomologist Antoine Magnan included the following passage in the introduc on to his book Le Vol des Insectes: First prompted by what is done in avia on, I applied the laws of air re- sistance to insects, and I arrived, with Mr. Sainte-Laguë, at this conclus- ion that their flight is impossible. Magnan refers to his assistant André Sainte-Laguë, a mathema cian.