If you've watched bees circling brightly colored flowers before landing to gather pollen, it may be they're getting guidance ...

Thanks to their unique visual spectrum, bees prefer certain colors – so these are the flowers you'll want to plant in your ...

Unlike us, many animals can see ultraviolet light. If you're using a video screen to study their visual perception, therefore, that screen really ought to work in the UV spectrum – and a new one does ...

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In an unexpected discovery, researchers have found that the complex eyes of mantis shrimp are equipped with optics that generate ultraviolet color vision. Mantis shrimp's six UV photoreceptors pick up ...

I was reading a children's book about insects to my daughter, and it said that bees see colors differently than humans do. My daughter immediately asked, in short succession: "What colors do they see?

Although our visual system can paint a vibrant portrait of the world, its palette of colors is actually quite limited, as we only see between 390 to 750 nm of the full electromagnetic spectrum while ...

Our ancestors had evolved the ability to see the full-color spectrum of visible light, except for UV around 30 million years ago; a new study has demonstrated. The scientists have finished a detailed ...