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When England’s team exposed caterpillars to electric fields similar to those generated by a flying wasp, caterpillars displayed defensive behaviors such as coiling, flailing, or biting. “This basically insinuates,” England said, that “prey and predator can detect each other just using static electricity.” Dornhaus, the behavioral ecologist, questioned whether electroreception buys the caterpillar much time. […]
