Static electric fields naturally produced by animals, humans included, can physically yank ticks onto their hosts. Video by England and Lihou et al. Credit Credit... Lihou et al., Current Biology ...

And these electric fields of flowers can change when it has been visited by a bee, and other bees can use that information to see whether a flower has been visited.

They sense changes in electric fields to navigate to flowers. Static charges play a role in helping pollen stick to them. And they can gain an electric charge as they fly through the air.

By measuring the electrical fields near swarming honeybees, researchers have discovered that insects can produce as much atmospheric electric charge as a thunderstorm cloud. This type of ...

Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as you pull it off, or when a doorknob delivers an unexpected zap. Regardless, the phenomenon is much mor… ...

This produced significantly better results, with an electric field detectable out to 24 inches. [Jay] also built an array of detectors in a 5×5 grid, which he used to help him visualize the size ...

Sep 21, 2023: All-optical generation of static electric field in a single metal-semiconductor nanoantenna (Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed a new technique to generate static electric fields ...

By measuring the electrical fields near swarming honeybees, researchers have discovered that insects can produce as much atmospheric electric charge as a thunderstorm cloud. This type of ...