Flowers can hear and respond, says science

NewScientist.com; Kelly Ani and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

We heard you were coming, sweet friend.

Evening primrose flowers can hear approaching bees and quickly make their nectar sweeter in response to the sound.

Lilach Hadany and colleagues at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, collected nectar from flowers before and after exposing them to a range of sounds, including recordings of bees and synthetic noises.

• [Early Indian scientist and genius Jagadish Chandra Bose proved there was a secret life of plants, building and testing very sensitive instruments showing that plants (and even assumed to be inanimate metals) can hear and feel and respond to their environment and humans. He came to the attention of the world in a big way through syncretic Hindu-Christian guru Paramahansa Yogananda's book Autobiography of a Yogi.]

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Within three minutes of exposure to actual bee sounds or artificial sounds of a similar frequency, the flowers increased the concentration of sugar in their nectar by 20 per cent on average.

There was no change in sugar levels in flowers played other sounds… More: Flowers hear bees and make sweeter nectar when they’re buzzing nearby | New Scientist