Insect swarms can electrify air the same way as thunderstorms.

The reason. Why electricity in flashes of lightning is so powerful is that the thundercloud loads electricity into them until electricity travels to the ground. There is the possibility that insect swarms would get the same electric load as thunderclouds. If insects are flying at high altitudes and radio impulses are hitting them. That can raise the electric load on their body to a high level. 

When small insects flap their wings. They can form static electricity in their tiny hair. The insect's hair acts like all other hair. And when it moves, it forms static electricity. Even if the voltage of one insect is not very high,  billions of insects can form quite a high-power electric phenomenon. 

There is also possible that static electricity forms the ion channel in the air which conducts lightning to a certain point. Even a weak ion channel makes the point where electricity can travel easier than elsewhere. And that thing can cause problems with communication systems. 

Insects are searching warm places. And the electric field can disturb high-speed data communication. Also, there is the possibility that insects can aim lightning at that communication equipment. 

Also, insects themselves can load with electricity. When insect swarm flies in the electromagnetic field like radio waves that radiowaves load electricity onto their bodies. When radio waves are loading electricity onto the insect's bodies they face a similar effect as starlings when they are sitting on electric wires. 

They will not get an electric shock because they are not touching the ground. When starlings touch the ground. Electricity travels away from it. 

The electric load continues to grow until it would hit to ground. But the insect itself will not feel anything. But when that insect sits on something. Electricity travels out from it. And if that thing is some kind of electric device that electric shock can disturb or even destroy the system. 

https://www.sciencealert.com/insect-swarms-can-electrify-the-air-as-much-as-a-thunderstorm

What does somebody do with information about how a hawk homes its prey from the chaotic swarm?

"Composite frame sequence of a Swainson’s hawk attacking swarming Mexican free-tailed bats at a bat cave in New Mexico, USA. The white lines connect the hawk to the bat that it captures, and remain parallel over time showing that the bat remains on a constant bearing. Credit: Caroline Brighton (Oxford Flight Group)"(Phys.com/ Study reveals how hunting hawks home in on prey inside a chaotic swarm)

Many swarming animals, such as insects and birds, use chaos as a shelter. Chaos makes it harder for a predator to pick a single bird or insect from that chaotic flock. Information about how animals such as hawks or dragonflies select targets and attack them makes it possible to create algorithms that are used to select the main movers from a flock of drones.

The prime mover is the drone that goes first. And the secondary drone is the backup tool. That mission is to observe the prime movers. They are forming two- or more-stage hierarchical systems that can make their mission waves. 

Flocks of drones imitate nature. They try to create chaos by hiding drones that are higher up in the hierarchy. The drone swarm is a hierarchical network of the entity, in which the main trustees and secondary movers collaborate with their pilots by sharing information across the whole, which is a combination of drones and their controllers.

Drone swarms are powerful tools and in the next-generation military systems, drone swarms are playing a vital role in aiming other weapons and attack against enemies. The drone swarms can use chaos for making the air defense harder to locate the centers of those swarms. 

In some visions, the center drones are more sophisticated, made of more expensive components, and equipped with more effective computers and they have sharper sensors than attack drones. And even if all of those drones have similar systems there must be drones that are making sure that the mission is successful. 

So there are always prime movers and then the secondary movers that are observing the mission. If the mission is not done, the secondary movers must accomplish that. 

Those centers are used to control their hench drones that are equipped with explosives and weapons. The drone swarm can use chaos for making the AA flak harder to detect the drones that are controlling the systems. But there is always a prime mover in those swarms. The prime movers are hard, but possible to detect from the drone swarms. 

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-reveals-hawks-home-prey-chaotic.html