Here's How Bees & Butterflies See Flowers ~no Wonder Why They Love Them !!!

Here’s How Bees and Butterflies

See Flowers.

No Wonder They Love Them!

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Credit: Craig Burrows




Credit: Craig Burrows

Credit: Craig Burrows


Credit: Craig Burrows

Credit: Craig Burrows


Credit: Craig Burrows

Credit: Craig Burrows

Credit: Craig Burrows


Credit: Craig Burrows


Credit: Craig Burrows

Credit: Craig Burrows

Credit: Craig Burrows

Credit: Craig Burrows

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Here’s How Bees and Butterflies See Flowers.

No Wonder They Love Them!

NOVEMBER 19, 2020 AT 7:23 PM

Humans are blind to ultraviolet light, but bugs can see it,
and boy are they lucky! Ultraviolet florescence photography
gives us a hint of how flowers look to pollinators.

Credit: Craig Burrows


Insects see the world very differently from how humans see it.

They can’t see red light like we do, but can see ultraviolet wavelengths invisible to the human eye.

We’ll never be able to see the world exactly as they do, but a special type of photography
called ultraviolet-induced visible fluorescence photography can give us a hint
at how awesome the world looks to bugs…
especially the world of flowers, which emit their own florescence
after being exposed to ultraviolet light.

Credit: Craig Burrows

Credit: Craig Burrows

California photographer Craig Burrows has done some amazing work
with this type of photography, soaking the flowers in ultraviolet light,
turning it off, and then snapping a photo of the flowers emitting the light
they’ve just absorbed with a special lens filter.

Credit: Craig Burrows

Credit: Craig Burrows
It’s obviously not exactly as bugs would see the flowers,
as they are seeing the UV light reflected off the flowers under the sun,
not fluorescing in the afterglow of a darkened room, but it gives you an idea.

Credit: Craig Burrows

Credit: Craig Burrows

Credit: Craig Burrows

A 2019 study found the parts of the flowers that reflect UV light
are important advertisements for attracting pollinators.


Credit: Craig Burrows

The UV reflecting vs UV absorbing (UV dark) parts of the flower,
help the bees navigate between petals and pistils (or stamens),
helping them find the pollen, a 2009 study found.


Credit: Craig Burrows

Credit: Craig Burrows

Credit: Craig Burrows

Credit: Craig Burrows

Author: Sara Burrows

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