How do Honey Bees fly and Navigate
Honey Bees are thought to fly using an electromagnetic field around them. If you look at a bee, they are not aerodynamic whatsoever. Rather than unsung aerodynamics to fly, they literally levitate and defy gravity. By flapping their wings, they resonate energy. As they keep resonating, they reach the resonate of the field around them - 8.5 hertz (the frequency the Earth functions at). At this frequency, the bees are able to generate a magnetic field around them and take off. It has also been theorized that honey bees have a magnetic abdomen which allows them to create what is like a SONAR image but with electromagnetic waves as opposed to sound waves. These images allow them to create a mental map in their head so they can navigate.
This has been proven on many different levels. First, after attaching radars onto various honey bees, it has shown that even in 48 km/h winds, the bees have been able to fly in dead straight lines. Also, bees have been able to fly up to 48 km/h with no wind. That is faster than Usain Bolt! It has been proven that bees have a magnetic abdomen. When a strong magnet was put in front of multiple honey bees in a closed environment, they were unable to properly navigate the area and were attracted to the magnet.
Neonicotinoids can impact a honey bee's flight and navigation as these chemicals are a nerve toxin. By damaging the nerves that allow a honey bee to sense electromagnetic waves, they can no longer use their "mind maps" which they use to navigate as they have no idea where they are in the map. Also, they have trouble taking off as they are no longer be able to sense when their resonance energy reaches 8.5 hertz.