An eclipse gave researchers an inside look at how bees respond to light

Re:An eclipse gave researchers an inside look at how bees re... by tylerhou on Thursday October 11, 2018 @10:56PM (#18198800)

Moonlight is white, just like how the sun is white. The moon = blue, sun = yellow connotations are mostly cultural.

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Re:An eclipse gave researchers an inside look at how bees re... by Nition on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:16PM (#18198915)

Just looked it up. Apparently it's due to the Purkinje Effect, i.e. "The tendency for the peak luminance sensitivity of the human eye to shift toward the blue end of the color spectrum at low illumination levels."

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Re:An eclipse gave researchers an inside look at how bees re... by perl4ever on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:57PM (#18199088)

I just googled it and apparently moonlight is actually redder (or yellower if you prefer) than sunlight.

Here is a thread with a graph of the spectrum: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/244922/why-does-...

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