Do bees like Van Gogh’s Sunflowers? Lars Chittka, Julian Walker Although, most of C. Monet (1840–1926), flower paintings were made years earlier. Monet; an avid painter of flowers, had the lens removed from his right eye in 1923 due to cataract, and would therefore have been able to see UV patterns of flowers. In some cases there was an assumption that the fact that the bees were attracted to the centres of the flowers in Van Gogh’s painting indicated that the artist had ‘‘unwittingly’’ captured some essence of the flower, which rendered the painted flower attractive to bees. Source: http://www.biology.qmul.ac.uk/research/staff/chittka/popular%20scientific% 20articles/ChittkaWalker06.pdf Best Wishes, Joe http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/HistoricalHoneybeeArticles/ ******************************************************* * Search the BEE-L archives at: * * http://listserv.albany.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wa?S1=bee-l * *******************************************************