Last Thursday, British sensory biologist Dominic Clarke and other authors published research about detection of floral electric fields by bees in journal Science. The research involved studying bees' reaction to flowers with different electric fields. The researches concluded that bees can choose flowers based on their electric fields, and remember them as they do with color and other characteristics of flowers.
This Friday Wikinews interviewed Dominic Clarke about the research.
((Wikinews))  What caused your initial interest in electric fields of flowers?
((WN))  How was the new phenomenon discovered?
((WN))  How many species of flowers and bees did you study during your research?
((WN))  Do you have diagrams, sketches, or drawings of electric field around a bee and a flower?
((WN))  Was it known that bees have a charge before?
((WN))  What environment did you study the flowers and bees in? A laboratory? A garden? Natural environment?
((WN))  What equipment was used during the research? How did you measure the charge?
((WN))  What were the roles of the people involved in the research? What activity was most time-consuming?
((WN))  What do you see as possible directions for future research in this field? What do you think possible applications of the discovery can be?
((WN))  Thank you for sharing your insight and details. Have a good time.

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Wikinews interviews British sensory biologist Dominic Clarke about floral electric fields and bees