Plant Music

A buzzing bee is sweet music to a flower’s, um, petals. Researchers recently discovered that some flowers respond to the frequency of bee wing vibrations by increasing the sugar content of their nectar by 20% within three minutes. The petals appear to act like a satellite dish by channeling the sound, but scientists are unsure exactly what part of the plant receives and translates the transmission.

Bee buzzing triggers the plant’s extra sweet effort, but other sounds do not. The flowers tune out wind, for example, and save their energy for when they hear the bees. Such obvious design is just another example of how we can clearly see the Creator in creation.

Article was taken from Answers magazine, November–December, 2019, 23.