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Figure 1: How bees perceive colour.
Figure 2: Reflectance spectra of Antirrhinum majus.

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Waser, N., Chittka, L. Bedazzled by flowers. Nature 394, 835–836 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/29657

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