Bumblebees’ Little Hairs Can Sense Flowers’ Electric Fields

Another good reason to love bees. Because they are soooooooo cool :-)

The fields bend the hairs and that generates a nerve signal, scientists say.

Source: Bumblebees’ Little Hairs Can Sense Flowers’ Electric Fields

A while back I had published a post that bees could see an electrical charge on a flower and I hypothesized that they could detect a color change given an electrostatic change in a protein component of the flower but this is even cooler.

Bob

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