Background Flower coloration is a key enabler for pollinator attraction. Floral visual signals
comprise several components that are generated by specific anatomical structures and …

Research in the honeybee has laid the foundations for our understanding of insect colour
vision. The trichromatic colour vision of honeybees shares fundamental properties with …

Colour is an important attractant for many flower-visiting insects (anthophiles).
Consequently, coloured pan trapping is an efficient technique that can be easily and cost …

The quality of visual information that is available to an animal is limited by the size of its
eyes. Differences in eye size can be observed even between closely related individuals, yet …

Colour vision enables animals to detect and discriminate differences in chromatic cues
independent of brightness. How the bee visual system manages this task is of interest for …

Bees discriminate between many different colours of flower petals, but it is not well
understood how they perceive and learn patterns frequently found in flowers with colourful …

Highlights•Insects perceive separately chromatic and achromatic aspects of colour
patterns.•Flowers present colour patterns as individual or shared displays.•Visual …

Blue is a favored color of many humans. While blue skies and oceans are a common visual
experience, this color is less frequently observed in flowers. We first review how blue has …

Flowers are often viewed by bee pollinators against a variety of different backgrounds. On
the Australian continent, backgrounds are very diverse and include surface examples of all …

Fast detection of visual change can be mediated by visual processes that ignore chromatic
aspects of the visual signal, relying on inputs from a single photoreceptor class (or pooled …