Question

We've seen that bees develop a positive charge as they fly through the air. When a bee lands on a flower, charge is transferred, and an opposite charge is induced in the earth below the flower. The flower and the ground together make a capacitor; a typical value is 0.64 pF. If a flower is charged to 30 V relative to the ground, a bee can reliably detect the added charge and then avoids the flower in favor of flowers that have not been recently visited. Approximately how much charge must a bee transfer to the flower to create a 30 V potential difference?

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