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Sam England

Sam England

Aug 17, 2026

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?
75:40
Yeah.
75:41
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.
75:53
And butterflies and moths are generally a good example of this.
75:56
So the vast majority of butterflies and moths don't benefit from gathering pollen.
76:01
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.
76:12
And they don't eat pollen, generally speaking.
80:13
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?

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