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Bumblebees' Little Hairs Can Sense Flowers' Electric Fields
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Flowers generate weak electric fields, and a new study shows that bumblebees can actually sense those electric fields using the tiny hairs on their fuzzy little bodies. "The bumblebees can feel that hair bend and use that feeling to tell the difference ...
Dancing hairs alert bees to floral electric fieldsEurekAlert (press release)
You better bee-lieve it! 'Dancing' hairs lead bumblebees to pollen by sensing electric signals given out by flowersDaily Mail
Bees guided to flowers by invisible electric fieldsTelegraph.co.uk
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