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Subject:
The colors bees don't see/fashion news
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Grant Gillard <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:49:14 -0800
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It is reported that honeybees cannot see or detect the color red.
 
So why are most of our bee suits white?  Why not red?  We'd be "invisible."
 
Just wondering.
 
Grant
Jackson, MO  (where we hit the 50s today, bees taking cleansing flights)
 
 


      

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