What makes a bee hit the office window? Bumph! And then it flies away. Why does it hit the window and then not get injured? Is it somehow related to bees seeing ultraviolet wavelengths and using these as landing strips. We don't see ultraviolet so article authors seem to be most jealous.
There are many, many articles on this question. Some are conversational and others are scientific studies. One posits that it is queen bumblebees looking for a suitable nest site. Other articles say it seems they are attracted to the shade when looking for a place to nest. Another rationale is that these are males defending their territory and they are attacking their reflections, like birds do.
As the article headlines continue, they go off-course or into other species bumping behaviour. What about this one: fish more inclined to crash into each other than bees. So we make our way into the territory of bees bumping into each other. There's a youtube video of bees bumping into each other and making a whoop noise: it a vibrational pulse produced by honeybees' wings now considered to be an expression of surprise. You can hear the little honky whoop noise HERE.
Today we are looking at the bark of a palm with some colourizing.
