Most hummingbirds flap their wings about 50 or so times a second.
Moravia
They have special wing that bend so that they can flap their wings faster
very fas
once a day
A honey bee beats its wings between 200 and 230 times a second.A bumble bee beats its wings between 150 and 230 times a second depending on the size of the bee, with the smaller bees beating their wings faster.
Beacause they need wings to fly to their food. The only reason they are in catipiller form when they hatch they don't have enough nuitrients to have wings yet. So they eat. -Emma the 5th Grader
Yes, they move them constantly up and down at a supremely fast rate to stay in flight.
Butterflies move along by flight. Not a vigorous flight but more of a flutter. They move lightly around the air by flapping their almost weightless wings.
Wings, sucking mouth parts, large compound eyes and they undergo complete metamorphosis. In addition they have 6 legs, their larvae have well developed silk glands. Similar to moths the butterflies have scales on the wings.
Hummingbirds flap there wings so fast because they just do. Moriah
that would be the wings, like all flying insects that make a buzzing sound.
300 times
by the muscles that are in there wings heres a picture of one enjoy
55 times per second.
A bumble bee flaps its wings bout 180 times per second, and per minute about 11,000 times.
In flight, a bee flaps its wings 200 to 230 times a second.
40 mph
They flap their wings in a figure 8 pattern very fast
Moths flap their wings wildly when they feel threatened. It is a defense mechanism.
a bee flies by flapping it's wings. if it wants to change the direction it is flying, it will flap it's wings the opposite direction so that the dynamic stall it's wings create will let it go the direction that it wants.
120 times per second