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Aug 17, 2026
From the archive: Electric ecology
75:12
In terms of this pollination by electrostatic charge, is this just like a quirk of nature that these organisms are taking advantage of, or, or is there any evidence that they've evolved dedicated structures to take advantage of it? Do you know what I mean? Like, are they just opportunistically doing this 'cause it works, or has, has evolution actually noticed this, "noticed this" in, in scare quotes, and sort of evolved them down a path that specializes them toward this kind of pollination?
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75:41Sam EnglandGUEST
So in terms of the pollinators, that's a bit more of a messy question because some pollinators don't actually really care about whether they gather pollen.
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75:56Sam EnglandGUEST
So the vast majority of butterflies and moths don't benefit from gathering pollen.
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76:01Sam EnglandGUEST
In fact, often it hinders them because it kind of slows them down in flight or, yeah, it can basically just kind of clog them up and make them generally less kind of mobile.
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What do you have in mind there? And has it been shown to, to be a real consideration, or are you just speculating that it, it, it might be?
