bee-vision
Original: bee-vision on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A large, colorful flower against a green background.
Caption: Flowers evolved to attract pollinators.
Panel 2: A diagram showing two color spectrums labeled "THEM" (top) and "US" (bottom), with the "US" spectrum being the narrower visible-light range.
Caption: Bee vision is not the same as ours. They see less infrared than us, but they see more UV.
Panel 3: A bearded man stands in a grassy field with hills in the background.
Caption: Humans have been around for about 200,000 years, and there are flowers whose patterns we have never seen.
Panel 4: The man raises a pair of high-tech goggles/binoculars to his eyes.
Caption: Until now.
Panel 5: Seen through the goggles' view, the man looks down at a four-leaf-clover-like plant that now reveals hidden glowing patterns.
Votey: An angry face shown in close-up, glaring.
Face: "I'm gonna kill you and give you to my sweetie"
Caption: Flowers evolved to attract pollinators.
Panel 2: A diagram showing two color spectrums labeled "THEM" (top) and "US" (bottom), with the "US" spectrum being the narrower visible-light range.
Caption: Bee vision is not the same as ours. They see less infrared than us, but they see more UV.
Panel 3: A bearded man stands in a grassy field with hills in the background.
Caption: Humans have been around for about 200,000 years, and there are flowers whose patterns we have never seen.
Panel 4: The man raises a pair of high-tech goggles/binoculars to his eyes.
Caption: Until now.
Panel 5: Seen through the goggles' view, the man looks down at a four-leaf-clover-like plant that now reveals hidden glowing patterns.
Votey: An angry face shown in close-up, glaring.
Face: "I'm gonna kill you and give you to my sweetie"
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a big colorful flower; caption "Flowers evolved to attract pollinators." Panel 2: a diagram comparing two light spectrums, the wider one labeled THEM (bees) and the narrower one US; caption explains bee vision sees less infrared and more UV than human vision. Panel 3: a bearded man in a green field; caption notes humans have been around ~200,000 years and there are flowers with patterns we have never seen. Panel 4: the man lifts high-tech goggles to his eyes; caption "Until now." Panel 5: through the goggles, he looks down at a clover-like plant revealing hidden glowing UV patterns invisible to normal sight. Votey: a close-up of an angry, glaring face that says, "I'm gonna kill you and give you to my sweetie" — implying the newly-revealed flower is now a target to be picked as a gift, the predatory flip side of finally seeing what pollinators see.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.