01 August 2005

Ultra-violet Flowers

This website is a wonderful introduction to the world according to insects. It is easy for us humans to forget that flowers look as they do not to draw satified sighs from gardeners but to attract potential pollinators - critical to their survival. And what we see is not the whole story.

Here is Pacific silverweed (Potentilla anserina) to humans:










And here is what insects see:

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