To avoid mantids, stinkbugs evolved to hide in plain sight
Friday, February 6, 2015 - 09:00
in Astronomy & Space
Did you know that the sky isn't actually blue? Perhaps in school you learned about how air scatters light, filtering out red light from the sun, but that is only half the story. While our eyes perceive a milky blue, a more optically-endowed creature, such as a bird, would actually see a colour which is more of a violet, pushing into ultraviolet. That milky blue happens in our eyes.