I asked once: How do bees fly with such tiny 

wings? It doesn’t look like it should be possible, 

 

but that’s only if you think of wings like birds. 

Bees move their wings diagonally, starting up 

 

and back, then forward and down, 

while also flipping their wings upside down 

 

as they flap. All of which causes the air above 

the wings to swirl, and it is this swirling 

 

vortex that creates the lift for flight. Physicists

calls this a Dynamic Stall. 

 

It doesn’t look like it should be possible. 

Each countercurrent is an exit. The stall 

 

is your answer. She is working out 

how to leave, the only way that is possible to her.

 

She is conjuring the hurricane.

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By Sarah Hanson