Bees transfer charge to flowers they visit. The insects are capable of detecting weak electric fields with mechanosensory hairs. Flowers can have fields of 5 kV/m in a region 2-3 cm from the plant. Bees may use the field to assess if flowers are worth visiting.
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The bee, the flower, and the electric field: electric ecology and aerial electroreception

Bees and flowering plants have a long-standing and remarkable co-evolutionary history. Flowers and bees evolved traits that enable pollination, a process that is as important to plants as it is for...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5599473/
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