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Princess Anne visits the Deaf Academy, Exmouth https://thedeafacademy.ac.uk/
The visit ended with 12-year-old Eco School representative Ivy presenting The Princess Royal with a jar of Royal Deaf Education Trust honey from the Academy’s own beehives.
The idea that the pollen 'jumps' from flower to bee is cute. Note that when a positively charged bee visits a negatively charged flower and the electric field is neutralised or reduced, the flower doesn't "send a signal;" it's merely that the electric field is neutralised or reduced, which a bee may be able to detect. Does the lack of negative field from a flower affect bee behaviour? Is the electric field effect strong enough to draw (as in attract) bees to flowers. Odd that Sir D talks about pollen transfer being affected by the electric field, and concludes that the reduced electric field after a bee's visit is a signal about nectar.