Pictures Capture the Invisible Glow of Flowers. Ultraviolet light reveals alien-like colors and fairy sparkles in seemingly normal plants.

Leaves reflect green, and flowers reflect red, or yellow, or whatever. But plants also fluoresce, which means when they absorb ultraviolet light, they emit longer wavelengths visible to the human eye.

Being red-blind, bees would see the third image, which is composed of UV, blue, and green ... images below, the birds, like the flowers, have evolved to display a stunning set of colors invisible ...