Flowers And Color: How The Bees Sees Ultravioletly

Colors are not constant, they are relative and relatively speaking, bees see much differently than we do.Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London and Imperial College London have developed what they call FReD – the Floral Reflectance Database – that holds data on what colors flowers appear to be, to bees.    Records of flower colors don't take the visual systems of pollinator insects into account and bees have evolved completely different color detection mechanisms from humans so they see colors outside our own capabilities in the ultra-violet range. read more

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