Plate 123
Honeybee
Honeybees live together in large colonies of tens of thousands, with one queen who lays the eggs.
- Family
- Photoreal
- Origin
- Captured
- Habit
- Diurnal: kept on the page
- Voice
- Yes, with the sound on
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD
How to play
Tap it to make it buzz its wings and lift off.
Notes
Worker bees fly from flower to flower drinking nectar and gathering pollen, and back at the hive they turn the nectar into honey. As they go, they carry pollen between flowers, which helps plants make fruit and seeds.
Tap it and its wings buzz in a blur as it lifts off, tilts and lands again. A honeybee's wings beat about 200 times a second: that is what makes the buzz.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese BeeConverted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, turned upright, recentered and scaled. | YUMA Co., Ltd. | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)