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"
Biologists discover #caterpillars are able to sense #electrostatic fields generated by #predators.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-biologists-caterpillars-electrostatic-fields-generated.html
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."
Conservation behaviour. Many shark and ray species use electroreceptors (ampullae of Lorenzini) to detect minute electric activities in their preys. Field experiments show that bycatches decrease when longlines are equipped with electrical deterrent devices.
#Science #biology #animalbehaviour #predation #predator #ecology #conservation #shark #fishery #electroreception #bycatch #longline
📄 Doherty et al (2022) Current Biology 32:R1260–R1261 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.003
