{"id":11886,"date":"2016-06-29T06:10:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T10:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=11886"},"modified":"2016-06-25T21:23:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T01:23:05","slug":"bees-and-electric-charge-electricity-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=11886","title":{"rendered":"Bees and Electric Charge &#8211; Electricity of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An easy-to-follow video by Alex Fournier discussing new views from modern biology of the electrical interactions between bees and flowers. For both the pollen-harvesting process and the efficiency of foraging behavior, static electricity makes a bee\u2019s life easier.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-7bAlO-DZlg\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Primary scientific sources for this finding in popular science media:<\/p>\n<p>Mechanosensory hairs in bumblebees detect weak electric fields.<br \/>\nSutton, Clarke, Morley, &amp; Robert<br \/>\n<a class=\" yt-uix-servicelink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2016\/05\/25\/1601624113.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2016\/05\/25\/1601624113.full\" data-servicelink=\"CDAQ6TgiEwin1JC-wcTNAhVHmr4KHU_ECvAo-B0\">http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/201&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Detection and learning of floral electric fields by bumblebees.<br \/>\nClarke, Whitney, Sutton, &amp; Robert<br \/>\n<a class=\" yt-uix-servicelink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23429701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23429701\" data-servicelink=\"CDAQ6TgiEwin1JC-wcTNAhVHmr4KHU_ECvAo-B0\">http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a9 2016 Microsoft Terms Privacy &amp; cookies Developers English (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An easy-to-follow video by Alex Fournier discussing new views from modern biology of the electrical interactions between bees and flowers. For both the pollen-harvesting process and the efficiency of foraging behavior, static electricity makes a bee\u2019s life easier. Primary scientific sources for this finding in popular science media: Mechanosensory hairs in bumblebees detect weak electric fields. Sutton, Clarke, Morley, &amp; Robert http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/201&#8230; Detection and learning of floral electric fields by bumblebees. Clarke, Whitney, Sutton, &amp; Robert http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23&#8230; \u00a9 2016 Microsoft Terms Privacy &amp; cookies Developers English (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,4],"tags":[537],"class_list":["post-11886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edu","category-future","tag-thunderbolts-project"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11887,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886\/revisions\/11887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}