title: Flower Colour: How Bumblebees Handle Colours with Perceptually Changing Hues.
abstract: Colours are floral signals enabling bees to detect, inspect and discriminate flowers in a multitasking world. Behavioural tests now show that trained bumblebees find iridescent coloured targets more quickly and that weak iridescence does not corrupt target identification.
authors.affiliation: Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Biology Department, Institute of Sensory Ecology, Universitätsstrasse 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. Electronic address: lunau@uni-duesseldorf.de.
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lunau
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees; D003116:Color; D003118:Color Perception; D035264:Flowers