BEES GUIDED BY COLOUR.
After spending two summers in the clover fields, Dr. Charles H. Turner, a scientist, has found that bees are guided by colour in their quest for honey. In this, he differs from the generally accepted idea that bees find out the sweets through sense of smell alone. Dr. Turner placed coloured discs in a field near beehives. On discs painted red lie put honey, and found that the bees soon learnt to visit them. By placing honey on discs of other colours, and not on the red, he found that the bees made straight for the red discs. The same experiment was tried with boxes striped with different colours, and the same results followed. The bees learnt to pick out Lhe colours and to visit them.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 11 September 1912, Page 7
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