Relationship between Bees and Static Energy

 Bees that buzz around flowers can actually feel whether that flower has
been visited by another pollinator by using the hair on their body to
detect something called static charge or electricity.

Experiment proving Bees feel static Electricity

 Dominic clark and Heather whitney from Bristol Univ. hav shown that
bumblebees /bees can sense the electric field that surrounds a flower.
 They can even learn to distinguish between field produced by diff.
between fields produced by different floral shapes or use the to know
whether a flower has been recently visited by other bees.

Role of bees and static electricity in nature

(page 1)These collisions strip negatively charged electrons from the
bumblebee. This leaves a bumblebee with a positively charged electric field.
(page 2)Flowers and therefore the pollen within them have a negatively
charged electric field. As a positively charged bumblebee approaches a flower,
their electric fields overlap and there is a force of attraction between them.
This force causes the negatively charged pollen grains, that are not anchored
to the flower, to ‘leap’ from the flower onto the bumblebee, without the two
even needing to touch.