Bees see in more colors, what are the extra colours they see.?

Question

Bees can see in more colors, which are considered ultra-violet to us, but sees the color red in black. (Dr. Karl von Frisch of Germany) Are there names for these other colors they see?

Answer 1

What they see is ultraviolet radiation as well as the colors from the visible spectrum except red.

The see all the other colors we see except red which they cannot see at all just as we cannot see ultraviolet

Answer 2

Technically, bees don't see in more colors, they see colors that fluoresce in more light frequencies - namely the UV range of the light spectrum - than we do. There are not new colors with new names in the UV range.

Various minerals and biological substances flouresce in the UV range of the light spectrum as well as in the "visible" range (because that is all that we as humans see) of light. So you would just say that a given object or structure appears red (for example) under UV light, even though it may appear to be a different color in the visible range (regular light). The color names stay the same because they still have to activate the same color-receiving structures (cones) in the eye.

Perhaps if you wanted to distinguish that something was different under UV light, you could call it "UV-red" (for example) as opposed to "VR-black" (visible [light] range black), but again, same color names in whatever range they appear.

Hope that helps!