To discover whether bees can see colors, the following experiment is set up. A table is put in a garden, and on the table is a piece of blue cardboard (硬纸板) with a drop of syrup (糖浆) on it. After a short time, bees come to the syrup. The bees then fly to their hive (蜂蜜) and give the syrup to other bees in the hive. Then they return to the feeding-place which they have discovered. After a while, the blue cardboard with the syrup on it is taken away. Instead of this card, a blue card is now put on the left side of the first feeding-place and a red card to its right. These new cards have no syrup on them. Thus, the blue card is on the left, the red card on the right, and there is nothing where the first blue feeding-card used to be. Very soon bees arrive again, and fly straight to the blue card. None go to the red card.

以发现是否蜜蜂可以看到的颜色，下面的实验设置。一张桌子放在花园里，桌子上一片蓝色的纸板（硬纸板）用一滴糖浆（糖浆）上。一段时间后，蜜蜂来糖浆。蜜蜂飞到蜂巢（蜂蜜）给糖浆蜂箱里的其他蜜蜂。然后他们回到feeding-place所发现的。过了一会儿，它蓝色的纸板和糖浆带走。而这张牌，一张蓝色的卡片现在是放在第一次喂食地点的左侧和右侧的红卡。这些新卡没有糖浆。因此，蓝色的卡是在左边，右边的红卡，并没有任何地方首次蓝送卡使用的是。很快蜜蜂再次到来，并直接飞向蓝色卡片。不去红卡.