A Honeybee Swarm Has as Much Electric Charge as a Thundercloud
Shayla Love: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Shayla Love.
When you hear a bee buzzing along, visiting a flower, you’re hearing the movement of air made by the fluttering of its wings. But it turns out that bees are buzzing in more than one way.
Giles Harrison: I first saw this when I saw a bumblebee land on an electrode I was using, and I saw a real change in the measurement. And I thought, “This is a charged thing.”
Love: That’s Giles Harrison, a professor of atmospheric physics at the University…