Traces: The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator

by Patricia Wiltshire

Bees are positively charged and (this is wonderful) they are attracted to flowers with the strongest negative charges. I had always assumed that the reason pollen stuck to bees was because of their hairiness and the stickiness of the pollen. Well, that may be part of the story, but there is little doubt that static electricity is also important in the transfer from flower to pollinator. The negatively-charged pollen jumps onto the positively charged bee through electrical attraction.

Your body is your own for only a short time; the elements from which it is made are only borrowed from the outside world, and you must give them back eventually.