00:00If your aesthetic is this, then here's your personalized story time on how insects know
00:05which flowers have pollen. Cause flowers basically advertise, but in a cute indie cottagecore way.
00:11Not in like a volume on, full blast, skip ads in 15 seconds kind of way. There's three main signs
00:16and my favorite is the third. Some have colors and patterns that insects can see way better
00:20than we can. Like UV landing lights that point straight to the good stuff. Or they might be
00:25blasting scent signals to say hello nectar here. But my favorite is that some flowers have tiny
00:31electric fields and when a bee lands that field changes for a bit. Kind of like a recently visited
00:36sign. So the next pollinator can skip the empty one and hit a flower that's actually stalked.
00:41So pollinators are literally just reading the signs.
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