"Do Flowers Talk To Bees?"

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My son, 3, asked me, "Do flowers talk to bees?" The answer is, "Yes."
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      Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

      This isn't "talking to each other". It's just evolution adapting bees to the way flowers work, and vice versa.

      It's communication the same way I communicate with the water when I swim through it. Nothing conscious is going on.

      It's a beautiful sentiment though.
      The communication seems way more complex than mere interaction with water. Unless I misunderstood it (which is very likely, lol) is about specific kinds of flowers connecting with specific species of pollinating bugs via electrical fields, exchanging such information as what kind of flower it is and if it still has nectar.
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    This isn't "talking to each other". It's just evolution adapting bees to the way flowers work, and vice versa.

    It's communication the same way birds communicate with magnetic fields to know which way North is.. Nothing conscious is going on with the magnetic fields. The bees and flowers are doing this automatically.

    It's a beautiful sentiment though.
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      Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

      This isn't "talking to each other". It's just evolution adapting bees to the way flowers work, and vice versa.

      It's communication the same way birds communicate with magnetic fields to know which way North is.. Nothing conscious is going on with the magnetic fields. The bees and flowers are doing this automatically.

      It's a beautiful sentiment though.
      Not in the sense that we talk to each other.
      Wasn't it just evolution that adapted our vocal cords so we could have a way to communicate?
      The bees seek information and the flowers communicate it to them. May as well call it talking.
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      • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
        Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

        Not in the sense that we talk to each other.
        Wasn't it just evolution that adapted our vocal cords so we could have a way to communicate?
        The bees seek information and the flowers communicate it to them. May as well call it talking.
        The brain abides by the same laws of physics and is composed of the same elements as the rest of nature and the greater universe. Maybe, just maybe the process of evolution is a form of thinking. This sure looks smart to me:

        Is this a leaf? No, it is a butterfly.
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        • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
          So does this, TB.



          Is it a vine? A twig? A stick?

          Nope, an insect aptly named "walking stick".

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      • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
        Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

        Not in the sense that we talk to each other.
        Wasn't it just evolution that adapted our vocal cords so we could have a way to communicate?
        The bees seek information and the flowers communicate it to them. May as well call it talking.
        That's actually a very interesting question. And a very good insight, I think.
        I'll have to think about that.

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        How do you know?
        How do I know what?
        Added later; I paid attention in High School science class. Not everything is a mystery.
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      Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill View Post

      How do you know?
      Uh, he's probably had that same birds and bees talk I had at early school. It kinda throws you when you're only interested in rocket science.
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    Yes..Bees do talk with flowers..More and more gardeners are anxious to do their part to help the bees by adding to the shrinking inventory of flower-rich habitat in their area.

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    All life forms can communicate. Communication is a hard-wired facet of all fauna on earth. Now with the case of plants - they, too, give off energy which can actually communicate info to any other being that can perceive and read that energy. We've been able to read changes in energies in plants when exposed to music...later experiments showed some sort of communicative energy amongst the plants. So bees can pick this up, too. Not a surprise to me. Everything is energy. If you can perceive the particular "wave" "force" "aura" or whatever - you're going to get information of some sort or another from it, but most of it will not register in forms we are used to using for transmitting/receiving information. Not sure why this idea is so hard for people to perceive.
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    I thought they whispered "Sweet nothings" in their ear.
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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      Originally Posted by lcombs View Post

      I thought they whispered "Sweet nothings" in their ear.
      They kind of do, come to think of it. Nectar is sweet. And their relationship is actually very personal and intimate.
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