Colours

[marcros]

I am just painting up my collection of mininucs with various odds and sods of old paint. What colours can bees see- Blue and yellow ring a bell, but are there others that are useful for identifying their hive?

 

[BKF Admin]

Beekeeper bees
Red Black
Yellow Yellow/Green
Green Green
Blue Blue
Violet Blue
Purple Blue
White Blue/Green
Black Black

 

[BKF Admin]

See chart below

 

[marcros]

Beekeeper bees
Red Black
Yellow Yellow/Green
Green Green
Blue Blue
Violet Blue
Purple Blue
White Blue/Green
Black Black

Excellent. Thank you.

 

[Nik]

I guess it depends on how many you have. I only have a few and don't paint them but identify them with drawing pins, some map pins and some ordinary ones. That way I am limited to the colours in the box of pins but each has an easy way to identify them. As I only have a few I can spread them around so that they are easily identified by the location rather than the colour for the bees.