How do bees get back to the hive when it starts pouring rain if they can’t fly in the rain, especially when it keeps raining for days and days?
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They evolved on a planet where this is sometimes the case, and so have ways to detect when it’s going to rain so they don’t get caught out. Bee’s forage within 2 miles of the hive usually preferring closer than that and so need a way to know when it will rain based on how quickly they can fly 2 miles in a bee-line back.
Hives that forage at distances where the hive doesn’t gain weight, forage in rain, forage at distances where they can’t get back, too many die in other ways, etc, don’t pass on their genes
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