The Effect of Colour on the Numbers of Housefliesresting on Painted Surfaces

Abstract

Colour perception in insects has been reviewed extensively by Weiss (1943,1944, 1946), who points out' that most of the available information indicatesthat light intensity is more important than wavelength' in producing reactions.However, von Frisch and others have shown that, for bees at least, there is adefinite wavelength discrimination (Wigglesworth 1939).