A Celestial Event Left Bees Speechless
Recordings from tiny microphones showed that the insects stopped buzzing during the 2017 eclipse.
by Marina Koren
Oct 10, 2018
3 minutes
For several minutes last August, a cosmic alignment between the Earth, sun, and moon plunged a narrow slice of the continental United States into near darkness in the middle of the day. As the spectators gathered in the shadow stared up at the sun, now nothing more than a sparkling white ring against a mulberry sky, they marveled at the sight. They shouted, hooted, cheered.
Those were the humans. The bees had a pretty different reaction.
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