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This project explores aerial electroreception in bumblebees, revealing their ability to detect electric fields from flowers. It aims to understand the biophysical mechanisms and ecological significance of this sensory modality, potentially transforming our knowledge of animal perception.
Many animal species can detect the electric fields in their environment.
Electroreception has mainly been studied in aquatic vertebrates; fish like sharks and rays, gymnotid and mormirid electric fish, the lamprey, the platypus, the coelacanth, and one mammalian species, a dolphin.
We have discovered that bumblebees can detect and learn about the weak electric fields that arise when they approach a flower.
This is the first example of electroreception in a non-conductive medium, aerial electrore…
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