Bumblebees actively foraging in the field have been found


Bumblebees actively foraging in the field have been found to be electrically charged, due largely to air resistance as they fly. The charge carried with a bee, which can be as great as 93 pC (pico = 10-12), is thought to play a significant role in pollination—the bee can attract grains of pollen from a distance, like a charged comb attracting bits of paper. The force needed to detach pollen from an avocado stigma is 4.0 x 10-10N. Discover the maximum distance at which the electrostatic force among a bee and a grain of pollen is sufficient to detach the pollen. Treat the pollen and bee as point charges, and suppose that the pollen has a charge opposite in sign and equal in magnitude to the bee. Is this a large enough distance to be helpful to the bee in pollination?

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