Plants Are More Complicated Then You Think

The documentary linked below gives an all-inclusive look into plants and their mechanisms for communication.

It was long thought that plants unlike animals were simple in their make-up and interaction but these views have been proved incorrect. Plant ecology is complex and highly intricate. There is so much still to be researched and learnt about plant ecology and their mechanisms for communication. 

Like animals it has been found that plants are able to detect and communicate within themselves when injury occurs. Unlike in humans and animals where the neural systems sends a message to our brain in order to let us know that we have hurt ourselves. In plants the message that it has been injured is sent via different chemicals that are produced at the time. Different types of plants have evolved different mechanisms in order to combat the effects of the injuries and the organisms in which induce them.

Take a look at this documentary for some insight on just how complex and interesting plant communication and plant ecology is. 

Here is the url just incase the video link doesn't work- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfh11rCUYyA 

Plants and Bee's Communicating

I found this short David Attenborough video fascinating. It describes how plants communicate with insects, such as bees. 

Plants have an overall negative charge and bees have a positive charge this leads to the interesting and intricate interactions that occur between them. Little of this information would be known without scientific testing as what we observe with our eyes is not a full scale portrayal of the interactions occurring.

When a bee lands on a flower to eat its nectar the negatively charge pollen is attracted to the positively charged bee thus the flower gets its pollen transported to other flowers via this exceptional mechanism. What is also interesting  is that after this interaction between bee and flower has occurred the flower is left with a slightly different charge or electrical field, this charge lets other passing bee’s know that the flower has recently been visited an there probably isn’t any nectar left. By the time the plants electrical field has been stabilized it will have produced enough nectar for another bee to visit. What a fascinating connection insects and plants have and there must be so many more intricate details of their relationships that are still unexplored.  Take a look at the video!!

Here is the link if the video doesn't work- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g_q4EKecbU