Sandy Ong

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Unexpected Elements · Light entertainment · 14 Aug 2026 podcast

I've also heard of some accounts where spiders start to destroy their webs, bumblebees stop buzzing.

So it's really fascinating.

And in animals, these reports are actually decently documented.

But when it comes to plants, however, we actually know very little about how they respond to solar eclipses.

But things are a little less mysterious now thanks to a new study that came out last April in a journal called Royal Society Open Science.

And this paper describes how some spruce trees in Italy appear to be able to anticipate solar eclipses and possibly even talk to one another during such events.

Yeah, I definitely did a double take when I saw that article.

So in this study, a team of international scientists traveled to the Dolomites, which is a forested mountain range in Italy, and they studied the spruce trees there during a solar eclipse that happened in October 2022.

And what they did was they used custom made sensors to measure the tree's electrical activity.

And the researchers made two very interesting observations.

So the first thing they noticed was that the electrical activity from individual trees became more intense in the time leading up to the eclipse.

And we're talking up to 14 hours before the event actually happened.

And what's more, these electrical signals actually became more synchronized.

One of the researchers compared this to an orchestra of instruments starting to play.

would be perfectly in sync.

And the second thing they observed was that older trees seemed to detect and respond to the eclipse first, and then they seemingly shared this information with the younger trees via the electrical responses they produced.

Golstar Alex.

So the Wood Wide Web was first described by a Canadian forest ecologist called Suzanne Simart back in nineteen ninety-seven.

And she observed that trees could communicate in a cooperative way with one another and share all sorts of useful information.

So for instance, they share warnings about harmful insect invaders.

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