And spiders can use this electrical field to take off and balloon, allowing them to migrate over large distances. I think that's a factoid that I could probably do without. The team found that honey bee hive swarms change the atmospheric electricity by 100 to 1000 volts/meter, which increases the electrical field force that is normally experienced at ground level rather than in the air. When comparing thunderstorms and other weather events with the bees highest charge, researchers found that a dense form of bees had a higher electrical charge