![]() Firstly, Barry’s relationship to the other bees in the hive is brought up a couple of times. We’ve talked a lot about what this movie got wrong, so let’s discuss what they got right. I’ll allow that particular error to slip, though, since that study was in 2009, two years after the movie came out. Secondly, a study has shown that bumblebees do not actually defy the laws of physics to fly – scientists were simply comparing their flight to that of birds or planes, which use far more rigid wings. The bee, of course, flies anyway, because bees don’t care what humans think is impossible.” Firstly, this idea pertains only to bumblebees. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. Rewinding to the opening line of the movie, the narrator says, “According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. In reality, the bees would only collect from one type at a time, making sure that they had pollinated all of the flowers of that kind before moving onto the next kind. The bees are shown to be collecting nectar and pollen from a variety of flowers on their trip. Speaking of foragers, there was a glaring error in the foraging scene. They start out as cleaners, then after a couple of days they become nurses, then builders, then guards, then foragers. In actuality, a worker bee’s job is dependent upon her age. In Bee Movie, a bee graduates and then chooses the job that it is going to do for the rest of its life. We’ve already established that worker bees are females, so let’s move on to how their jobs work. Drones do not have stingers – that particular piece of anatomy is reserved for female bees. This also leads me to the fact that Barry has a stinger, as do all of the other bees in his hive. Drones do little to no work around the hive, as their sole purpose in life is to procreate. Let’s start with the most obvious one (aside from bees wearing clothes): Barry is said to be a worker bee. However, I’m still going to go through them and set the record straight. I’m sure that these scientific slips were for the sake of the story, and that the writers figured that since the film was meant for kids, not beekeepers. While I greatly enjoyed the film this time around, I have to say that I noticed that the movie is wildly inaccurate. It first came out back in 2007, and I hadn’t seen it since then. ![]() ![]() This weekend, I was hanging out with my roommates, and we decided to watch Bee Movie.
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