Hummingbird flower mites use static electricity to hop between flowers. Researchers initially thought scent guided them.

Generating electricity from tacky tape Date: January 30, 2025 Source: American Chemical Society Summary: Zaps of static electricity might be a wintertime annoyance, but to certain scientists, they ...

Mites who hitchhike on the beaks of hummingbirds use a surprising method to help them on their journey: electricity. These hummingbird flower mites feed on nectar and live within specific flowers for ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Thursday, Jan. 9 is National Static Electricity Day. Breanna Fuss braved the Van De Graaff Generator at the Buffalo Museum of Science to learn why we see more static electricity in the ...

When hummingbirds visit multiple flowers, you usually see the mites going down their beaks only when they touch the first ...

The evolution of static electricity by evaporation was illustrated by pouring water into a small heated vessel placed on the electrometer. This mode ot excitiag electricity possesses peculiar ...

I knew it had to be something else." Then, after reading a story about research into how ticks are pulled onto clothing by ...

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They are not particularly fast either." A hummingbird with mites emerging from its nostril.Andy Morffew, cc-by-2.0 via Flickr Last year, Garcia-Robledo was thinking about a paper from a group of ...