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Electrostatics may turn out to be an evolutionary force in small creatures’ survival that helps them find food, migrate and infest other living things.
This developing field, known as aerial electroreception, opens up a new dimension of the natural world.
Though we cannot sense these electric trails, they may guide us to animal behaviors we never imagined.
Large animals don’t meaningfully experience nature’s static — we’re too big to feel it.
Insects can feel air's viscosity; bees can gather negatively charged pollen without brushing up against it.
Sam England studied 11 species of butterflies and moths to measure their static charge.
Electrostatics may be more influential in the animal kingdom than we know today .
Microscopic hairs on bees and spiders seem to aid in sensing, according to work from Robert ’s lab.
England speculates that strong charges make insects more visible to predators that rely on nonvisual cues, such as static.
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