How do honeybee clusters overcome the wind blows?

According to a new study, honey bees making tree nests can adjust their position to keep bees together when being blown by the wind.

A strong wind cannot drop a cluster of honey bees , and now scientists are beginning to understand the reason.

According to a new study, when searching for a new nest, bees often gather on the branches or other surfaces, forming large, suspended clusters that help these insects secure from other factors. . In order to maintain this nest, each honey bee will change its position, adjusting the shape of the bees based on external forces. It can help bees to deal with disturbances like the wind shaking branches.

The bees moved upward, flattened the clusters and reduced the swaying.

A team of scientists created a pedestal that could move with a queen bee locked in the center, surrounded by honey bees clustering into a floating cluster. According to a report by researchers in Nature Physics on September 17, when the vibrating pedestal was back and forth, the bees moved upwards, flattening the cluster and reducing the swaying.

Scientists hypothesize that the insect may move on stretch - how far each bee is pulled from its neighbors when the bees swarm. So researchers created a computer simulation of a swarm of bees to determine where the bees decided to move.

The researchers found that when the simulated bees were programmed to move to places with greater stretches, the simulation reproduced the observed flattening of the bees. When a bee moves to a larger stretch, it is subjected to more pressure. So by sacrificing 'one person for everyone', the bees can make sure the cluster can stay in place.