Insects and other small creatures utilize static electricity for various purposes, including travel, predator avoidance, and pollen collection. New research explores how evolution might have shaped this phenomenon, opening up a new field of study called aerial electroreception.
Insects use static electricity for travel, predator avoidance, and pollen collection.
Aerial electroreception is a new field of study exploring the ecological effects of static electricity.
Static electricity may be an evolutionary force in small creatures' survival.
Invisibly to us, insects and other tiny creatures use static electricity to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen and more. New experiments explore how evolution may have influenced this phenomenon. The post The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology) first appeared on Quanta Magazine)