_width

Right now my bee is disappearing before it fully gets off the stage because the x position fairly well centered on the clip. So, when the bee's x position is greater than the stage width, we are setting the x position to be zero:

What we need is to figure out how many pixels of bee are hanging out to the left of the center point. Flash has another property for us: _width

The bee's width can be checked (or set) by referencing bee._width. We can use this to check if the bee's x position is greater than the stage width plus the width of the bee! Then the entire bee will be off the stage for sure:

OK, now there's the little problem of the bee's x position getting reset to zero. The front half of the bee is already on the stage:

What I need is to reset the x position to 0 minus the width of the bee. Actually, that sounds kinda dumb. How about just negative bee width:

Alright, now test your work:

Well, now there seems to be a little too much lag time. We have to fix that too.