I'm a keen amateur apiarist however the last few times I've visited my hives I've noticed a very disturbing trend in some of my livestock that I'm hoping someone here may be able to assist me with. I'd read somewhere that a low amperage current applied to a hive acts as a catalyst to increase honey production and also provides some uniqueness to the flavour. Being of open mind I decided to try this out and, for a time, I was harvesting more from my hives than I've ever done. After a while I saw that honey production was dropping back down to average levels and the quality of the honey was also suffering so I thought I'd test the boundaries of my newly implemented improvement and increased the amount of current I'd been applying. Again, honey production increased, however, every now and then I'd see what appeared to be seriously disorientated bees flying into my bedroom walls and combusting in a small shower of sparks. To add some context to these comments I should also mention that I keep my hives under my bed and have drilled small holes in my walls for the bees to exit and enter as they please. So my question is around how it's possible for an insect to store sufficient charge in its body that it self destructs on impact with a solid surface. I would have thought that this amount of electrical energy would have killed the insect long before any inherent capacitive qualities kicked in.