Spectral purity, intensity and dominant wavelength: Disparate colour preferences of two Brazilian stingless bee species.

Bees use floral colour as a major long distance orientation cue. While it is known for bumblebees and honeybees that dominant wavelength (≙ colour hue), colour contrast and spectral purity (≙ saturation) are crucial for flower detection and discrimination, only little is known about colour preferenc...

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Main Authors: Sebastian Koethe, Sarah Banysch, Isabel Alves-Dos-Santos, Klaus Lunau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6162086?pdf=render