Microphone near Clover (IMAGE)

Entomological Society of America

Microphone near Clover

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To study the influence of a total solar eclipse on bee behavior, researchers researchers at the University of Missouri organized a cadre of citizen scientists and elementary school classrooms in setting up acoustic monitoring stations to listen in on bees' buzzing--or lack thereof--as the August 2017 solar eclipse passed over North America. Here, what looks like a white ball of fur is actually a flash-drive-sized microphone with a windscreen, tied to a short post in a patch of clover.

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Candace Galen, Ph.D., University of Missouri

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