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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Janice Shell who wrote (11256)7/18/1997 3:16:00 AM
From: ZinMaster   of 108807
 
B Kind to B day...

As a frequent wearer of hawaiian floral prints, I can assure you that the attraction bees feel towards to flower images is quite real. They will hover around an inch or two away from my shirt for several seconds, then fly away - I tend not to smell like a flower.

Honey bee vision extends to much shorter wavelengths than human vision. And since flower coloration has largely co-evolved with bees to provide a natural attraction, the flowers are often quite vivid in the near ultraviolet. An ordinary white lily looks pretty plane to human eyeballs, but in the near UV, each petal looks like the landing lights of a 12,000 foot runway at a major international airport.

Not that a bee typically requires a 12,000 foot runway...they only have six, you know.

-zm
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