Color food Insects Prefer
Insects see the world much differently than humans do. For example, bugs can see ultra violet rays. Crickets are omnivores, and mostly eat what people do. But when insects are given the choice, what color food would they choose? By giving insects three different colored food, will crickets care which food they eat or will they just choose the one closest to them? Just because crickets are most active at night, insects, such as crickets can still see many colors.
If color affects the food choice a cricket makes, then crickets will choose the purple food most often.Crickets can not see red, orange, and yellow very well so the hypothesis is that the cricket will choose the color food it is most familiar with (Turpin). Insects see high frequencies such as ultraviolet light, a color beyond our perspective (Moment of Science).Humans are the opposite and can excel in seeing colors such as red and orange, but we have difficulty seeing ultraviolet light. …show more content…
Crickets do not really need color because they use their vision to detect movement and sometimes even photoreception, which is used to find the time of the day (Turpin). Vision helps insects and animals jump, crawl and even fly. An insect’s color spectrum is limited because they have only two types of color pigment receptors (moment of science). This causes insects and some animals to not being able to see the warmer colors. Cones are a part of the eye that lets you see color. One cone lets you see one color (Science Line). While humans have three cones, insects have two (Science Line). Seeing color differently between people and insects proves that we see the world
Insects see the world much differently than humans do. For example, bugs can see ultra violet rays. Crickets are omnivores, and mostly eat what people do. But when insects are given the choice, what color food would they choose? By giving insects three different colored food, will crickets care which food they eat or will they just choose the one closest to them? Just because crickets are most active at night, insects, such as crickets can still see many colors.
If color affects the food choice a cricket makes, then crickets will choose the purple food most often.Crickets can not see red, orange, and yellow very well so the hypothesis is that the cricket will choose the color food it is most familiar with (Turpin). Insects see high frequencies such as ultraviolet light, a color beyond our perspective (Moment of Science).Humans are the opposite and can excel in seeing colors such as red and orange, but we have difficulty seeing ultraviolet light. …show more content…
Crickets do not really need color because they use their vision to detect movement and sometimes even photoreception, which is used to find the time of the day (Turpin). Vision helps insects and animals jump, crawl and even fly. An insect’s color spectrum is limited because they have only two types of color pigment receptors (moment of science). This causes insects and some animals to not being able to see the warmer colors. Cones are a part of the eye that lets you see color. One cone lets you see one color (Science Line). While humans have three cones, insects have two (Science Line). Seeing color differently between people and insects proves that we see the world