Bee sound effects

A low broad rasp that climbs as it nears and drops away behind. The take most edits want, because the movement through pitch is what an audience reads as an insect crossing the frame.

Warm and slightly unstable, holding in one place with tiny shifts in pitch. Those small wobbles are what keep it alive; a perfectly even tone comes across as an appliance.

A tense rising buzz broken by short dry taps as the body hits the pane. Comedy and tension both use it, and the taps are what make the insect feel trapped rather than busy.

Hundreds of separate wing-beats at slightly different pitches, layered into one moving mass. Written as individual insects, so it churns rather than settling into a flat drone.

Thousands of wings vibrating together into one low, warm mass with a faint shimmer over it. Fifteen unbroken seconds, which is long enough to run under a full sequence.

One hard rasping surge that spikes and cuts off. Short enough to hit an exact frame, where the pass-by needs three seconds to travel through its own arc.