Yes, their eyes are sensitive more to the blue end of the spectrum and into ultra violet. Flowers reflect large amounts of ultra violet light and to a bee will be very bright. Bees are totally red blind. So they can see all the colours of the rainbow including UV, but not Red or IR. [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Can A Bee See Colour?
Posted in Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beetwixt & Beetween on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Natural Navigators
Posted in Bee-ology, Beetwixt & Beetween on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An interesting experiment known as the SCHAFBERG experiment (named after the mountain) demonstrates the sophistication of bee navigation. The only source of food for a colony of bees was put on the far side of a mountain, the bees could not fly over the mountain only around it. What direction would the bees indicate in [...]
Song of the Queen Bee by E.B. White
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Extract from the New Yorker Magazine 1945: “The breeding of the bee,” says a United States Department of Agriculture bulletin on artificial insemination, “has always been handicapped by the fact that the queen mates in the air with whatever drone she encounters.” =============================================== When the air is wine and the wind is free [...]
St. Ambrose, Patron Saint of Beekeepers
Posted in Bee Lore, Beekeeping on March 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Apparently St Ambrose didn’t have anything directly to do with bees, but had the title “Honey Tongued Doctor” because of his speaking and preaching ability. This led to the use of a beehive and bees as his symbols, as you can see here: More at: http://membracid.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/beekeeping-patron-saints/
Honey for Tea!
Posted in Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween, Bylaugh on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The beekeeping lady then worked quickly. She put a large sheet on the ground and put the box with the bees on top. In a very short space of time all the bees were gone and there was no more noise. She slowly lifed the box and put it back into her car. She then removed [...]
