why are flowers colourfull?

Question

Why are flowers coloured to attract insects for pollination, when humans are the only creatures on the palnet who can see in colour?.. Most books tell that they are coloured to attract insects for pollination. Are these books right or wrong?????>>>>..

Answer 1

They are correct. Birds and bees are common pollinators and both have color vision, thus opting for "colorful" flowers. Some flowers have patterns, called nectar guides, that show pollinators where to look for nectar; they may be visible to us or only under ultraviolet light, which is visible to bees and some other insects.

Answer 2

Why do you think humans are the only creatures who see in color? Most animals see in color, especially birds and insects, which do almost all the pollination of flowers (not counting wind-pollinated plants). Bees, in fact, see in most of the colors we do, plus in ultraviolet, and it turns out that many, many of the flowers pollinated by bees have strong ultraviolet patterns which we don't even notice. But the bees do.

Answer 3

Bees do not go from flower to flower.They go to a specific flower.Certain colors absorb light and other colors reflect light.Bees can register the difference and see mathematical patterns that identify each flower. The pattern tells the bee weather it is the right or wrong flower.

Answer 4

Humans are NOT the only creatures that can see color. Others can, too. Some can see further into the ultraviolet or infrared ranges than we can, too.

Answer 5

Recently Scientific American published an article about color. Mammals have only two receptors for color. Primates have three. Birds have four. It's pretty fascinating. Check it at sciam.com.

Answer 6

Yes, your book is right.Because we can see colour.Many kinds of cells of flower, make colour such as green,i think.

Answer 7

They ( the books)are right.

Answer 8

I believe the books.