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.
Plaaaantaaains?!
Sugar Caaaaanes?!
Daisy Chaaains?!
Geraaaaniums?!
John Maynard Keyyynes?!
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…
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.
The Bee Gees
The Beatles (Double points on that one)
Excellent! 
In the absence of a factual answer, I submit that this thread be moved to In My Bumble Opinion.