Paper: Bee vision reference

[DaveO]

I came across this post by accident so to make it more widely available here is the link

 

http://www.ultraviol...ee-colours-iii/

 

scroll down to post #20 to get two very good pdf reviews.

• Bumblebee_vision.pdf 1.08MB 54 downloads
  
• Honey_bee_vision.pdf 966.15K 55 downloads
  

 

 

Quote from p. 427 of the honeybee paper

"Bee vision is inherently different from that of humans in many aspects. In studies where perceptual mechanisms are not clearly identified and stimuli are inspired by human vision rather than adopting the perceptual viewpoint of the bee, speculative classifications of visual representations or characterisation of visual stimuli as biologically relevant and irrelevant should be avoided."

 

Dave

[DaveO]

As an outsider to the topic of bee vision I find it very confusing and I recently found this paper by Adrian Horridge dated 2015 which helps to set out what is now known

 

How bees distinguish colours

http://adrian-horridge.org/downloads/How%20bees%20distinguish%20colors.pdf

 

Dave