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Article #1390Re: Blue Sky
From: Timothy Vaughan
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:53
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:53
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In article <9930@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes: >George did that routine before blue-corn became popular enough to >show up as corn flakes as well as tortillas, or squid-ink pasta made >it into american grocery stores. Interesting that there are blue birds >and flowers but not blue animals; where is a biologist when we need one! I'm not a biologist. (I don't even play one on TV.) I cannot comment on the fact that there are blue birds. However, I know that part of the reason that flowers evolved to be so brightly colored (including blue) is that the colors attract bees, which pollenate them. In fact, some flowers have patterns at infrared (or is it UV?) frequencies that bees can see but we can't. Tim
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!bu.edu!buphyk.bu.edu!tvaughan From: tvaughan@buphyk.bu.edu (Timothy Vaughan) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Blue Sky Message-ID: <91713@bu.edu> Date: 23 Jul 92 13:53:23 GMT References: <BrrMJB.Brv@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Jul22.145723.24741@galois.mit.edu> <9930@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Sender: news@bu.edu Organization: Boston University, Physics Department Lines: 14