Researchers at Hiroshima University HU_Research reveal how microscopic Caenorhabditis elegans worms utilise electric fields generated by bumblebees to jump incredible distances. Learn more:
Tiny nematode worms use static electricity to leap into the air, which may help them attach onto flying passers-by, such as bumblebees, and hitch a ride.worms measure around 1 millimetre long and are typically found living in soil and rotting plant material. The worms are known to travel on the bodies of winged insects, but how such minuscule creatures leap into the air has been a mystery.at Hiroshima University in Japan and his colleagues may have finally figured this out.
To test whether an electric field is responsible, the team placed 1500 worms on a glass electrode and set another glass electrode a few millimetres above it. When no voltage was applied, none of the worms leaped. When an electric field of 200 kilovolts per metre was applied, the worms jumped with an average speed of 0.86 metres per second, which increased with a stronger electric field.see if this electrically induced leaping behaviour could occur in nature.
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