ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2024
Electrostatic pollination by butterflies and moths.
Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- The sensory ecology of caterpillars.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Review
- Electrostatics facilitate midair host attachment in parasitic jumping nematodes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Weak anthropogenic electric fields affect honeybee foraging.iScience · 2025Article
- Electric transportation and electroreception in hummingbird flower mites.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Buzz pollination: investigations of pollen expulsion using the discrete element method.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Electrostatic pollination by butterflies and moths.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
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Abstract
Animals, most notably insects, generally seem to accumulate electrostatic charge in nature. These electrostatic charges will exert forces on other charges in these animals' environments and therefore have the potential to attract or repel other objects, for example, pollen from flowers. Here, we show that butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) accumulate electrostatic charge while in flight. Then, using finite element analysis, we demonstrate that when within millimetres of a flower, the electrostatic charge of a lepidopteran generates an electric field in excess of 5 kV m
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