Friday, 27 May 2016

Bees have an electrostatic sense

Said the University of Bristol in a statement: “Although it’s known that flowers communicate with pollinators by sending out electric signals, just how bees detects these fields has been a mystery – until now.” What? Flowers have electric fields? Apparently so. And bees detect them using hairs that deflect according to charge – said Bristol, ...

Bees have an electrostatic sense



from ElectronicsWeekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/engineer-in-wonderland/bees-have-an-electrostatic-sense-2016-05/

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