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Wednesday 14 August 2024

Seeing Through The Eyes of A Bee

 Liverpool Museum allows visitors to experience what it feels like to be a bee.

Bees have five eyes and experience us as patterns of tiny fragments, apparently similar to how they may see flowers.

An Darach, a website that encourages readers to connect with nature, has an article on “How (and What) a Bee Sees.” The piece states that:

“Bees are also thought to be trichromatic, but that they cannot see red because they don’t have a photoreceptor for it. However, they can see the Ultraviolet (UV) end of the light spectrum and so they make colour combinations from blue, green and ultraviolet.”

Our receptors can see red so we make color combinations from Red, Green and Blue – the “RGB” values in our computer screens.  Unlike bees, we need instruments to read the ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum....<<<Read More>>>...