UV luminosity on a shut down aurora gloriole
Being a beekeeper , I ’ve been fascinated that bees can see a broader spectrum of light than we can see with our middle . bee can see ultraviolet ( ultraviolet radiation ) luminosity and always wondered how flowers might look to them with their ultraviolet illumination vision and why they like certain flower . I read that some flowers have ultraviolet light colored track that attract bees and other insects to land on them and conduct them toward the pollen and ambrosia in the heart and soul of the plant . This was created by the flowers to aid with pollination . cunning is n’t it ? Mother Nature really knows what she ’s doing ! We see the sky as juicy but bees see the sky as Ultraviolet ( UV ) . What colour is ultraviolet ? Well , it is the next ‘ vividness ’ preceding reddish blue in the color spectrum . We can see reddish blue but ultraviolet is inconspicuous to us because we do n’t have cones in our heart that can see ultraviolet illumination light . As an creative person , this is fascinating to me . I would love to be able to put on a pair of glasses ( kind of like the spyglass we get when we go to the 3_D motion-picture show but see UV light source instead ) .
Then I read that one can spot tomato hornworms with a UV lighting . Ah ha ! First I did n’t sleep together that about hornworms and second I did n’t know there are UV portable lights ! After investigate UV lights I got a ultraviolet radiation flashlight just before the last frost came and run down that dark to see what the flowers looked like in the garden even though most of them were finished . I lie with the hornworms were give out by then also so I ’ll have to ‘ see ’ if that is true next twelvemonth but it makes sense because white really glows with a ultraviolet radiation light and the tomato hornworms have some blanched stripes on them .
UV light on a folded morning glory
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Anyways there I was holding the torch in one hand and trying to take pictures in the other hand in the cold night . There were n’t many flowers left but I got a few and the event were interesting . Some glowed in the UV luminosity and some did not . I ca n’t hold off till next twelvemonth when the flowers are all out . I will be taking oodles of pictures with the UV light . Of course I ’m also nervous to see if the flashlight helps spotting the hornworms on the Lycopersicon esculentum plant !
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