Candace Galen

Candace Galen is based at the University of Missouri, in Columbia. And, being a biologist, she thought, why not use this astronomical 1 to study a biological one? Specifically: as the skies 2 would daytime pollinators, like bumblebees and honeybees, call it 3 "What better activity during an eclipse than to go out with a recorder and record the bees?" "So Galen asked 400 citizen scientists—including young students—to place audio recorders in 16 flower patches along the path of totality, in Oregon, Idaho and Missouri. When they analyzed the audio, they found that during 4 eclipse, bee buzzing continued. But when totality hit, the bees went silent and only the conversational buzz of human observers could be heard. Then, as the moon passed and the sun again lit up the sky, the bees 5 their buzz.