Ultraviolet Light Explained: See the world through the eyes of insects

Ultraviolet light explained: Mad scientist Don Komarechka shows us how insects see the world using ultraviolet light. Think you know what the world looks like? Think again!

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[JanneRanta]

Wouldn't mind more technical video about UV photography gear and techniques. Haven't seen many of those.

[creationoflove]

This was perfect!!!! My girls and I are studying butterflies this week and they wanted to see how ultraviolet light effects the different ways butterflies would see. We absolutely LOVED the video and will be subscribing =D

[bobdriscoll]

Absolutely fascinating! Keep doing this sort of thing!!!

[lazynut]

Your pink shirt and red flowers in front just blended with all greens around. Fascinating! I'd like to see more.

[grsamael]

More amazed by the effect of sunscreen at 3:20 than the flowers actually!!
Science <3

[egrintarg]

I am a red blue green UV tetrachromat. I always thought that TV cameras were just lame at showing what things really looked like until I was in college. The prof said that the flowers had crosses on them that could only be seen under a UV light. But I could see them. Nobody else saw them. I traced the cross on one of them and the teacher took it back to the lab. He later told me that I got it right. I was not surprised except that nobody else could see what I could see. But sunscreen doesn't look black. It looks a kind of dark bright white. It is like a darkness that shines more brightly than light, but also a blackness that is blindingly bright. It is interesting to know that what I see on the screen is the way everyone else sees it. This is also why at night the colors seem to match TV more.

[someone_at_large]

Please make more videos like this! It’s amazing!!!

[MexinPL]

Photography, biology, physics and more from a short and very interesting video 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[lloydlandersz]

wow I love your work and your presentation

[robertofreddi]

For statistics, I personally really appreciate the theme and the conduction. Please go on.

[jhonsucmeov]

Fun fact: Not only Insects see in ultra violet but arachnids do too meaning spiders no matter how big or small

[fabipuello]

This is great, it's like Natgeo on your backyard

[aryehtench]

awesome video i would love more videos like this!

[BooYahRadley]

so weird, I found this vid by watching an astrophysicist trying to explain the difference between infrared/ultraviolet and the JWST vs. Hubble. Loved this, so educational! swear, this is when and how YTube is so cool, to learn from a community. Cheers for this, subbed.

[miljomupp]

Imagine a camera without the filters talked about below but a "tuneable" sensor. The sensor could observe uv visible and it light and with a tweak in the menu you could decide which wavelengths of light the sensor would use to create the image: uv only, visible light only, it only. And instead of just producing uv and ir pictures in black and white, one could instruct the camera to assign "false colors" to the images. The uv could be shades of light to dark purple for example. Or for it there could be red blue green assigned to light, medium, dark areas. This could also be done in post production I assume.

[briansmith]

Thanks Don, eagerly awaiting your book release...

[Osmone_Everony]

So these images show only the UV part of the light? Can't insects see both UV AND regular light?

[ookiemand]

Love to see what's actually done to the camera's. Is it just removing the IR filter? how does the modification affect the normal shots?

[chiliboom]

Thank you for this video! I just found this and it helped me with what I was looking for. Cheers mate!

[Wonkabar]

So when Arnie is being chased through the jungle, what light does Predator see in ?