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>From: Philip Earle <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Colours?
>I don't know if bees can see colours, they certainly know light and dark
>colours as they genarally attack black shoes, dark hair etc.. while
>ignoring ones body if you are wearing white.
>As to flower colours, I read somewhere that at the centre of each
>flower thre is a hot spot which refects ultra violet light which the
>bees can see. I aslo beleive that bees use UV for navigation.
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>Philip Earle
>QUB, N. Ireland.
Here are some references:
courtesy of Peter Kevan:
"Color vision in flower visiting insects" (1990) is available from the author:
Prof. Dr. R. Menzel, Institut fur Neurobiologie
Freien Universita"t Berlin
Konigin-Luise-Strasse 28 - 30
1000 Berlin 33, Germany.
von Frisch, Karl. Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language.
Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press, 1971.
Horridge, Adrian. 1977. The Compound Eye of Insects. Scientific American
237:108-120.
Menzel, Randolf, Erber J. 1978. Learning and Memory in Honey Bees.
Scientific American 239: 102-111.
Cheers,
Steve Clark
Vassar College
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