Why do bees buzz?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Have you ever watched a bee flitting from flower to flower? It zips through the air like a tiny plane, making a buzz-buzz-buzz sound. But why do bees buzz, anyway? We asked bee scientist Alina Niño to help us find the answer. Got a bee-YOO-tiful question for us? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we promise we won’t just wing it! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.
0:05.0	Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Mom.
0:07.9	Moment of Um comes to you from EPM Studios. I'm Maris, the Millipede.
0:13.6	Um.
0:15.5	I just love being a millipede. I love my long, segmented black body. I love burrowing through the wet, rotting
0:24.0	leaves in the garden, and I especially love eavesdropping on other animals. Some might call me
0:30.8	nosy, but I just say I'm exceptionally well informed about the happenings of the neighborhood.
0:37.0	You wouldn't believe some of the conversations I've heard while I was just casually lying under a strategically placed pile of leaves, minding my own business, and listening super hard.
0:47.7	My fellow insects have more tidbits of gossip than I have legs, and I have so many legs.
0:54.1	Like, did you know that the crickets under the porch are starting an experimental jazz quartet?
0:59.5	Or that the house flies across the street were buzzing around Michael Boubley's trash cans the other day?
1:05.8	It was a real Boubley buffet, if you ask me.
1:08.5	And, wait, shh, shh, shh, sh,
1:14.0	neighborhood honeybees are having a conversation.
1:17.4	Wait, did you get that?
1:21.1	I think they just said buzz, buzz, buzz.
1:23.3	Does that mean anything to you?
1:25.3	Why do they buzz anyway?
1:28.3	I need to know the hot be gus. Harris sent in a question about this too.
1:30.3	Hi, my name is Harris from Detroit.
1:33.3	My question is, why do bees make a buzzing sound?
1:36.3	Bees actually buzz.
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