{"id":2403,"date":"2025-01-27T21:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T21:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-hummingbird\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T21:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T21:05:57","slug":"the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-hummingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Flower mites spend their lives slurping nectar and nibbling pollen in flowers throughout the tropics. To travel from one blossom to another, these tiny, eight-legged creatures hitch rides on the beaks of hummingbirds, taking shelter in the birds\u2019 nostrils during flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When a speedy hummingbird arrives at a flower to drink nectar, mites run toward its beak to get onboard before eventually transferring to another blossom. But the poppy-seed-size mites are basically blind and can\u2019t jump, said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/carlosgarciarobledo.org\/UCONN\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Garcia-Robledo<\/a>, a biologist at the University of Connecticut. How do they sense the bird\u2019s presence and attach to it so quickly?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While doing research at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica, Dr. Garcia-Robledo and his colleagues decided to try to answer this question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2419214122\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">study published<\/a> Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team discovered that flower mites can sense the same kinds of modulated electric fields that hummingbirds create when their wings rapidly flutter next to a flower. Moreover, these electric fields can also rapidly lift mites across a small air gap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This is the first time that the ability to sense electric fields has been found in mites, and it suggests that this \u201celectroreception\u201d may be widespread and ecologically important, said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/people\/person\/Daniel-Robert-9fcfe7e7-8d78-424e-8f00-8e0799f37219\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Robert<\/a>, a biologist at the University of Bristol in England who has published many studies on electroreception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the study, Dr. Garcia-Robledo and the biologists Diego Dierick and Konstantine Manser devised experiments to assess the mites\u2019 abilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In one, they placed mites near an electrode above a grounded copper plate. When the electrode was off or imbued with a nonmodulated electric field, all but one of the mites walked away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When it was turned on and vibrating within the range of electric fields that emanate from hummingbirds, almost all mites stayed and lifted their two front legs toward the electrode.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the first test, the mite reacted instantly, Dr. Garcia-Robledo said. \u201cI was surprised the response was so evident and fast,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In another experiment, the animals were placed in a glass \u201carena\u201d that had negatively and positively charged ends. When the current was switched on, the mites ran to the positively charged side, much as they rush toward positively charged hummingbirds in nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The scientists looked closely at the mites\u2019 front legs and discovered they contain structures similar to Haller\u2019s organs, sensory hairs that help ticks sense chemical cues and heat. On each leg, they also found three hairs that closely resemble those that spiders use to measure electrical fields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More experiments showed that mites with both front legs removed did not appear to be attracted to the modified electric field but that those with one leg were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They also anesthetized mites and brought an electrode toward them until the electric field was sufficient to lift the animals across an air gap of between 0.5 to 3 millimeters. The mites could travel 150 body lengths per second, one of the highest speeds ever measured among land animals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey are super, super fast,\u201d Dr. Garcia-Robledo said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The study strongly suggests that mites are indeed glomming onto birds using these fields in nature, he said, briefly moving more swiftly than their flying hosts ever do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Robert, who was not involved in the study, said the finding raised other intriguing questions. By sensing signals embedded within a hummingbird\u2019s electrical field, mites might be able to learn something about the animal itself. Could this include species-level recognition, as different birds vary in size, shape and flapping frequency?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Electroreception is widespread in aquatic animals, but is less common on land. Previous studies have shown that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rsif.2020.0146\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">bumblebees<\/a> can sense the electrical fields of flowers and use them to assess whether the flowers have been recently visited by other pollinators. Hoverflies <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-021-98371-4\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">appear capable<\/a> of doing this as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Spiders <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0960982218306936\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">can also sense electric charge<\/a> in the atmosphere, which helps them with a behavior called ballooning. Another arachnid, the castor bean tick, uses <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/30\/science\/ticks-static-electricity.html\" title=\"\">electrostatic charge to attach to hosts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This paper is the first to show electric fields being used in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/immunology-and-microbiology\/phoresis\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">phoresis<\/a>, the technical term used when one creature temporarily hitchhikes on another (a habit that is distinct from the parasitism practiced by ticks).<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis elegant study is really exciting because it introduces yet another ecological context in which animals use electroreception,\u201d said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Sam-England\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sam England<\/a>, a biologist at Museum f\u00fcr Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Flower mites are parasites of their host blooms, depleting some of the same nectar that ever-hungry hummingbirds consume. But the birds don\u2019t seem to mind and don\u2019t seem to try to get rid of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMost hummingbirds have these mites on them,\u201d Dr. Garcia-Robledo said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/science\/hummingbirds-flower-mites-static-cling.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flower mites spend their lives slurping nectar and nibbling pollen in flowers throughout the tropics. 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