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The story of the bumble bee resonates with

Solutions 2 Wellbeing, and that is why the bumble

bee has been incorporated into our logo. Solutions

2 Wellbeing wants to help you conquer the things

that might seem impossible in your life. Through

our integrative and synergistic approaches we bring

you solutions that will make your life more

meaningful. We bee-lieve in you and in all of your

potential greatness. And, that is exactly what we

The bumble bee represents possibilities and

possibilities are what Solutions 2 Wellbeing                         

The little bumble bee has played a huge role in our world right from the

very beginning.  If you ever watch a bumble bee, you will be amazed at

what a quick and thorough job they perform. Bumble bees are unique in

that they don’t lose their stingers when they sting something, unlike the

honey bee.  Also, unlike other bees, bumble bees are active even in cooler

weather which enables them to help with pollination very early in the

spring.  Consequently, without the bumble bee, many plants on our planet

would not be able to reproduce and their specie would become extinct. 

Without all of those plants, animals that depend on them would starve and

perish.  We depend on many of those animals for our food supply as well as

on many of the plants that bumble bees pollinate.  As it turns out, the

bumble bee, which was once thought to be a flight phenomenon (according

to science), actually has an enormous responsibility in the bigger scheme

The buzz is that the bumble bee can in fact fly. It was just the science

and accepted theory of the time which claimed it should be impossible. 

The theory, based on the mathematical equation by Andre Sainte-Lague, an

engineer, was written about in a 1934 book by entomologist Antoine

Magnan.   The equation proved that the maximum lift for an aircraft’s wings

could not be achieved at equivalent speeds of a bee.  Therefore, an

airplane the size of a bumble bee, moving as slowly as a bee, could not fly. 

Even though the science behind the theory never prevented the bumble

bee from actually being successful in flight, the ideas shared by Sainte-

Lague and Magnan, with reference to how bumble bees shouldn’t be able to

fly, still spread.  And, the funny thing is, the legend of the flight

The buzz is that the bumble bee is still flying today with the very same

efficiency that it’s had right from the beginning.  The dynamics of the

bumble bee really do work contrary to the accepted science and theory of

the past.   And in the mean time, the determined bumble bee, as

illustrated by Dawn Matheson, had the courage to do what seemed

impossible at the time, and just kept on flying, believing,  that science

Now, science better understands the bee and why it can fly.  The bumble

bee is not like an airplane; it is more like a helicopter.  Their wings work on

the same principle as helicopter blades do, with reverse-pitch semi-rotary

blades, to be precise. A moving airfoil, whether it is a helicopter blade or

the wing of a bumble bee, can generate a lot more lift than a stationary

The real challenge for science over time in understanding the flight of the

bumble bee has not been in figuring out the aerodynamics of flight, but in

figuring out the mechanics of flight.   Today, science now knows that the

bumble bee’s wings can move very fast, roughly 200 beats per second,

which is 10 or 20 times the firing rate of neurons in the nervous system. 

Another discovery is that the wing muscles don’t actually expand and

contact; they vibrate like rubber-bands.  A single nerve impulse signals the

wing muscle to vibrate the wings up and down a few times until the next

Despite the early scientific theory that a bumble bee’s body is far too big

for its little wings, and shouldn’t be able to fly, bumble bees conquered

what seemed impossible at the time and in doing so became a motivational

legend. It is just that the bumble bee was ahead of its time, being a flight

phenomenon.  The bumble, as described by author Dawn Matheson,

knew it could fly because it bee-lieved in the divine engineer that

specifically considered the aerodynamics of the bumble bee, even

before modern science could understand it. All that was needed was for

science to catch up to the bumble bee.   Sometimes, that is all it ever takes

The bumble bee was truly cutting edge technology right from the

beginning. The bumble bee flew when early science stated that

aerodynamically it couldn’t.  The bumble bee carried on its place in the

world’s system and just kept going despite the science of the time stating

that it shouldn’t be able to fly.  The bumble is truly a phenomenon of

nature.  In the end, as with so many things in this world, we learn to

appreciate and accept more as advancements in science bring those things

The story of the bumble bee resonates with Solutions 2 Wellbeing, and

that is why the bumble bee has been incorporated into our logo. Solutions

2 Wellbeing wants to help you conquer the things that might seem

impossible in your life. Through our integrative and synergistic approaches

we bring you solutions that will make your life more meaningful. We bee-

lieve in you and in all of your potential greatness. And, that is exactly what

The bumble bee represents possibilities and possibilities are what

Solutions 2 Wellbeing has for you.

Believe and receive...

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