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Electric charged spider silk make spiders fly - they detect it with tiny hairs on their feet. Now bees are using tiny hairs to "feel" the spark of flowers.I wonder if being coated in pollen feels like a bee orgasm. https://t.co/LmEf4pYFNQ
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
"Despite the well-recognized role of electrostatic charge in pollination, the charge magnitudes on insects in nature are largely unknown, but are expected to be higher in low humidity and in dusty conditions."https://t.co/vqcrIt1sf3
"In addition to sensory cues in other modalities, low-frequency oscillating electrical stimuli are produced by electrically charged vibrating foragers as they perform the waggle dance. Honey bees are sensitive to these stimuli"https://t.co/kwXZJXFt6m
"Our approach utilizes the fact that honeybee bodies are electrically charged by friction during flight and inside the colony, and thus they emanate characteristic electrostatic fields when they move their bodies." https://t.co/X2nuDLcg4b