by Kevin T McEneaney
Did you know flowers speak to bumblebees
by way of electrical impulses?
When a flower has not attracted bees,
it gives off static electricity
which pulls at the small hairs of a bee’s back
that lets the bee know which petals possess
the yummy nectar they’re foraging for.
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Plants use electricity to gossip
with each other about environment.
Trees talk to each other through winding roots
that touch each other’s roots beneath soil.
We have not decoded such languages.
Perhaps they discuss alkalinity
or proposed claim to a territory?
