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Well, it's a long way to walk to all those flowers!

I think you may be thinking of the old saying that a bumble bee is too heavy to fly, but no-one told the bee. This was based on looking at the bee's wings as simple aerofoils, in which case there certainly wouldn't be enough lift. More recent studies have shown that when the bee flaps its wings it generates vortices above the wing which give significantly more lift.

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