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How bees distinguish black from white
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Bee eyes have photoreceptors for ultraviolet, green, and blue wavelengths that
are excited by reflected white but not by black. With ultraviolet reflections
excluded by the apparatus, bees can learn to distinguish between black, gray, and
white, but theories of color vision are clearly of no help in explaining how they
succeed. Human vision sidesteps the issue by constructing black and white in the
brain. Bees have quite different and accessible mechanisms. As revealed by
extensive tests of trained bees, bees learned two strong signals displayed on
either target. The first input was the position and a measure of the green
receptor modulation at the vertical edges of a black area, which included a
measure of the angular width between the edges of black. They also learned the
average position and total amount of blue reflected from white areas. These two
inputs were sufficient to help decide which of two targets held the reward of
sugar solution, but the bees cared nothing for the black or white as colors, or
the direction of contrast at black/white edges. These findings provide a small
step toward understanding, modeling, and implementing in silicon the
anti-intuitive visual system of the honeybee, in feeding behavior.