Richard Brock@RBrockPhysics• over 5 years ago

Bees transfer charge to flowers they visit. The insects are capable of detecting weak electric fields with mechanosensory hairs. Flowers can have fields of 5 kV/m in a region 2-3 cm from the plant. Bees may use the field to assess if flowers are worth visiting. https://t.co/hjzeBp53ke