Insects and other small creatures utilize static electricity for various purposes, including travel, predator avoidance, and pollen collection. Recent research explores the evolutionary aspects of this phenomenon, a field known as aerial electroreception.
Insects use static electricity for travel, predator avoidance, and pollen collection.
Aerial electroreception is a developing field studying 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)