Dancing hairs alert bees to floral electric fields

Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 04:01 in Physics & Chemistry

Tiny, vibrating hairs may explain how bumblebees sense and interpret the signals transmitted by flowers, according to a study by researchers at the University of Bristol. 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. Using a laser […]

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