bee purple

noun

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  1. A color that is a mixture of ultraviolet light and yellow light (the two extremes of the…

    A color that is a mixture of ultraviolet light and yellow light (the two extremes of the visual spectrum of the bee, analogous to the way purple for humans is a mixture of red and violet, the two extremes of the human visual spectrum).

    • Karl von Frisch discovered that honey bees can see six colors—blue, blue-green, yellow, bee purple, ultraviolet, and bee violet.

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