Electric field around flowers may help bees find nutritious blooms
By Stephen Ornes
Web edition: March 11, 2013
Enlarge Scientists report that bees and flowers appear to have a charged communication. This may help foster pollination, a new study finds.
Credit: Emily Krieger
Say you?re a flower and you can?t reproduce unless bees come by to move your pollen. How can you use your blooms to ensure those bees don?t pass you by? Try communicating with them ? electrically.
Although colors and smells can help, a new experiment suggests electric fields may also bring in the bees.
Visit the new?Science News for Kids?website?and read the full story:?Flower power
Citations
S. Milius. Bees learn the electric buzz of flowers. Science News. Vol. 183, February 21, 2013, p. 9. Available online: [Go to]
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/348887/title/FOR_KIDS_Flower_power
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