Are bees color blind?

They're not colour blind, and their vision in some respects is better than ours. Bees see very differently to us, to start with, they have 5 eyes. read more

Bees have the ability to distinguish colors, they have a trichromatic color vision, so bees can see the three primary colours of UV, blue and green (they can't see red though) in the way that humans detect red, blue and green. read more

Bees have a very small brain, and have evolved to use the same part of the brain for colour vision as navigation, so when they are flying at speed they see in black and white, reverting to colour when they slow down or stop. read more

Bees also have the ability to see color much faster than humans. Their color vision is the fastest in the animal world-five times faster than humans. So while we may have trouble distinguishing one flower in a group from another, bees don’t. They see each individual flower. Some flower petals appear to change color, depending upon the angle. read more