Do bees make sounds

Bumblebees “can unhinge their wings from their wing muscles and vibrate their bodies,” Ellsworth says, making that buzzing sound you hear when they’re on a flower in the tone of middle C. “It’s the ‘hey’ in ‘Hey Jude ,’ and it causes the flower to explosively release pollen.”

Various researchers have reported the range of frequencies of the acoustic signals produced by a honey bee colony are in the range from 100 to 1 kHz [2,18], and that most of the sound have frequencies around 300, 410 and 510 Hz [9].

The buzzing sound we hear is because bees can flap their wings at a pretty impressive 230 beats per second . This rapid wing beat causes the air around the bee to vibrate and that vibration travels to our ear and we interpret that vibration as a buzzing sound.14 Eyl 2020