I have continued to play with the color select filters on my camera, and am struck how it focuses my attention on the colored areas. It got me thinking, 'is this how insects see the world?' I have not researched this at all, but I am pretty sure that flowers come in bright colors to attract pollinators. And that particular colored flowers attract particular pollinators. Some insects go for blue, others for yellow or red etc.
It got me wondering if maybe it would be an advantage for an insect to see only the particular colors of the flowers he/she sought? Ie for a blue flower pollinator to see only blue? Wouldn't this screen out all the confusion and make it easier for the organism to focus on just what is to their advantage? This is exactly how my use of the color filters allows me to draw attention to particular elements of a photograph.
Anyway, it is food for thought and, now having written this post, I'll google it and see if I am an idiot, or if I have learned something scientists have already known for ages.
I wonder how one could set up a science experiment to test this idea?
Patrick
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