Why Do Treehoppers Have Such Bizarro Body Shapes?
"Treehoppers detect electrical fields emitted by their predators and may also distinguish between electrical fields emitted by their predators and friendly insects."
#treehoppers #insects #BodyShape #morphology #ElectricalFields #Electroreception https://grrlscientist.medium.com/why-do-treehoppers-have-such-bizarro-body-shapes-c60cd937b6a3
Why Do Treehoppers Have Such Bizarro Body Shapes?
"Treehoppers detect electrical fields emitted by their predators and may also distinguish between electrical fields emitted by their predators and friendly insects."
#treehoppers #insects #BodyShape #morphology #ElectricalFields #Electroreception https://grrlscientist.medium.com/why-do-treehoppers-have-such-bizarro-body-shapes-c60cd937b6a3
Why Do Treehoppers Have Such Bizarro Body Shapes?
"Treehoppers detect electrical fields emitted by their predators and may also distinguish between electrical fields emitted by their predators and friendly insects."
#treehoppers #insects #BodyShape #morphology #ElectricalFields #Electroreception https://grrlscientist.medium.com/why-do-treehoppers-have-such-bizarro-body-shapes-c60cd937b6a3
Why Do Treehoppers Have Such Bizarro Body Shapes?
"Treehoppers detect electrical fields emitted by their predators and may also distinguish between electrical fields emitted by their predators and friendly insects."
#treehoppers #insects #BodyShape #morphology #ElectricalFields #Electroreception https://grrlscientist.medium.com/why-do-treehoppers-have-such-bizarro-body-shapes-c60cd937b6a3
Why Do Treehoppers Have Such Bizarro Body Shapes? study out of University of Bristol, published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Treehoppers detect electrical fields emitted by their predators and may also distinguish between electrical fields emitted by their predators and friendly insects"
#insects #morphology #evolution #electroreception #StaticElectricity https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/08/08/why-do-treehoppers-have-such-bizarro-body-shapes/
Why Do Treehoppers Have Such Bizarro Body Shapes? study out of University of Bristol, published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Treehoppers detect electrical fields emitted by their predators and may also distinguish between electrical fields emitted by their predators and friendly insects"
#insects #morphology #evolution #electroreception #StaticElectricity https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/08/08/why-do-treehoppers-have-such-bizarro-body-shapes/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225008119
(if I were a farmer reliant on pollination, I'd get the wax out of my ears on this massive effect)
"Aerial #electroreception…in #arthropods, including #bees, which can use #floralEfields as foraging cues…
…we demonstrate that weak #anthropogenicEfields…significantly alter #honeybee floral landing behaviors. AC and positive DC fields reduced landings by 71% and 53%, respectively, whereas negative DC fields had no statistically significant impact."
Hummingbird flower #mites found to use #electroreception to hitch rides on #hummingbirds between flowers https://phys.org/news/2025-01-hummingbird-mites-electroreception-hitch-hummingbirds.html
Electric transportation and electroreception in hummingbird flower mites https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419214122
"for a mite to catch a ride, all it needed to do was move a few steps closer to the arriving #hummingbird. Once it landed, it would remain in the #bird's nostrils to prevent being blown off as the bird flew. It could then jump down onto a flower as the hummingbird fed"
A trio of biologists from the University of Connecticut; the Organization for Tropical Studies, in Costa Rica; and the University of Bristol, has found that hummingbird flower mites use hummingbirds to carry them from flower to flower.
Biologists discover #caterpillars are able to sense #electrostatic fields generated by #predators.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-biologists-caterpillars-electrostatic-fields-generated.html
Sam England and Daniel Robert, biologists at the University of Bristol, report that at least three types of caterpillars are capable of sensing and responding to an electrostatic field generated by a predator.
New #BottlenoseDolphin sense discovered: Research suggests they can feel weak electric fields https://phys.org/news/2023-11-bottlenose-dolphin-weak-electric-fields.html
Passive #electroreception in bottlenose #dolphins: implication for micro- and large-scale orientation https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/22/jeb245845/334721/Passive-electroreception-in-bottlenose-dolphins
"This helps a #dolphin search for #fish hidden in sediment over the last few centimeters before snapping them up, in contrast to #sharks, the electrosensitive superstars, which are capable of sensing the electric fields of fish within 30–70cm."
Born tail first, bottlenose dolphin calves emerge equipped with two slender rows of whiskers along their beak-like snouts—much like the touch-sensitive whiskers of seals. But the whiskers fall out soon after birth, leaving the youngster with a series of dimples known as vibrissal pits. Recently, Tim Hüttner and Guido Dehnhardt, from the University of Rostock, Germany, began to suspect that the dimples may be more than just a relic.
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