# Is a box full of flying bees heavier than an empty box? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 28, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-box-full-of-flying-bees-heavier-than-an-empty-box/569337 "2011-01-28T21:59:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-box-full-of-flying-bees-heavier-than-an-empty-box/569337/81 "2011-02-07T23:12:12Z")
> [@NoCoolUserName](#): > > Still need an answer: What do Zombees eat? Bee brainz? Beerainz? You know when the movie’s bad guys cover the hero with honey, and stake him to an ant hill? The zombees eat the brains before the ants can get to 'em. Or that’s the theory, anyway, except the hero always escapes, and the zombees starve. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-box-full-of-flying-bees-heavier-than-an-empty-box/569337/82 "2011-02-08T06:43:15Z")
> [@NoCoolUserName](#): > > What do Zombees eat?!? Plaaaantaaains?! Sugar Caaaaanes?! Daisy Chaaains?! Geraaaaniums?! John Maynard Keyyynes?! ---
**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-box-full-of-flying-bees-heavier-than-an-empty-box/569337/83 "2011-02-08T12:40:52Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > What if they were jumping, instead of flying? Then if you dropped the box from the top of the Eiffel Tower, they wouldn’t die. As long as they jumped at the right moment. Ahhh, this is the kind of thread that brought me here 10 years ago… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-box-full-of-flying-bees-heavier-than-an-empty-box/569337/84 "2011-02-08T14:55:14Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > And are they farting? A farting bee would blow its abdomen apart. That would change the question parameters, right? Btw, bees flying at a leisurely 15 miles an hour expend the same amour of energy as a hovering bee. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-box-full-of-flying-bees-heavier-than-an-empty-box/569337/85 "2011-02-08T14:58:32Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Plaaaantaaains?! > > Sugar Caaaaanes?! > > Daisy Chaaains?! > > Geraaaaniums?! > > John Maynard Keyyynes?! The Bee Gees The Beatles (Double points on that one) ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-box-full-of-flying-bees-heavier-than-an-empty-box/569337/86 "2011-02-08T21:37:44Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Walter Brennan could not have explained it better. Excellent! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-box-full-of-flying-bees-heavier-than-an-empty-box/569337/87 "2011-02-09T14:26:29Z")
In the absence of a factual answer, I submit that this thread be moved to _In My Bumble Opinion_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-box-full-of-flying-bees-heavier-than-an-empty-box/569337.md?page=4)