Eli5: How can insects fly in a moving car?

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Yesterday a bee got stucked inside my car, while I was in the car I was moving with the car but the bee was flying around me very easily, I mean I kind of understand it but I need to understand it from physics’ point of view.

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From you and the bee’s point of view unless you were accelerating/decelerating rapidly or doing sharp turns there was no g forces acting on either of you.
Also the bee in flight had no contact with any part of the car so essentially the air inside was the same as it being stationary from the bee’s point of view.

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