How flowers get the blues to lure bees

Dimitri D. Deheyn ()
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Dimitri D. Deheyn: the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California

Nature, 2017, vol. 550, issue 7677, 467-468

Abstract: The petals of a range of flowers harbour repeated patterns of nanostructures that show similar levels of disorder across species. This degree of disorder produces a blue halo of scattered light that helps bees to find flowers. See Article p.469

Date: 2017
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