Bees stop flying during total eclipses

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Bees stop flying during total eclipses





Bees stop flying during total eclipses





Although the popular knowledge already knew, the phenomenon has now been verified scientifically and on a large scale, through research that has been possible thanks to what is known as "citizen science". This consists of the participation of the public contributing work in a scientific investigation. The institutions that are nourished by this volunteering come to have a workforce that otherwise would hardly have and, on the other hand, this collaboration allows the public to have the satisfaction of being able to make valuable contributions to science and technology.



While millions of Americans took a break from their daily routines on August 21, 2017 to contemplate the total solar eclipse, they may not have noticed a similar phenomenon that was happening nearby: when the eclipse stopped being partial to become total, the bees also took a break from their daily routine.



With the aim of studying on a large scale the influence of a solar eclipse on the behavior of bees, the team of Candace Galen, professor of biological sciences at the University of Missouri in the United States, organized an army of citizen scientists and even students of schools for the establishment of acoustic monitoring stations intended to listen to the buzzing of bees (or their absence) as the eclipse of 2017 passed. After the laborious analysis of all the collected data, the results have been made public recently , and they are clear and consistent in countless different locations throughout the country: the bees stopped flying during the period of the total solar eclipse.







In the new study it has been proven that during a total eclipse the bees stop flying suddenly. (Photo: Susan Ellis, Bugwood.org)



Galen confesses that, although it was foreseeable and logical that the bees stopped flying due to the strong darkening of their surroundings, neither she nor her colleagues expected that this cessation of activity would be so abrupt. The bees continued to fly during the partial phase of the eclipse that preceded the total phase, and at the beginning of that total phase they stopped altogether. After finishing this and beginning the other partial phase, they resumed their aerial activities normally.



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