Christina notes:
Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Reception and learning of electric fields in bees
We've known most of this since before the Madison lab was moved to Tucson.
About same time, the pollination folks in Israel were filming bees using
electrostatic charges to move pollen btw flowers and bees, and Burgett in
Oregon was looking at effects of DC power lines on bees. I also remember
being impressed that the two antenna on a single bee could have different
charges, which the bees apparently could switch at will. Nice to see
someone
looking at receptors.
I remember Erickson telling me that he could measure differences in charge
on a comb as bees stepped on and off. Often wondered whether all of this
meant there was some form of telephone inside the hive.
Jerry
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