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I find bees on my car pretty often and at different locations. They just like hanging out on my car. Do any White VT owners have this happen? Last night I had one hang on to the car after a 15min drive on the freeway! Guess these little guys have good taste in cars too!
 

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In the sense that white light is light of all colours mixed, then yes.
However, a bee's colour vision is not the same as ours. They can see well into the ultraviolet part of the spectrum which is invisible to us, and they are not as sensitive as us to the red end of the spectrum.
When a bee sees a flower, because of their ultraviolet sensitivity they can see patterns in the petals that we can't, usually lines leading down to the nectar source.
Bees can also see plane polarized light, which we can't without the help of polarizing filters. They use this to determine the position of the sun even when the sky is overcast with cloud. They use the sun's position for navigating.
However, a few known species of bee cannot see the color white but most species do, in fact, see white. The type of bees that cannot see the color white are a social scavenger type honeybee which can primarily be found in the southeast of North America. These specific types of bee see the color white as a somewhat translucent or crystalline shade of ultraviolet B, a "color" in the ultraviolet spectrum, with a wavelength of approximately 315--280 nanometers. In conclusion these bees see what humans portray as white as very close to invisible
 

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After I got my gloss black roof overlay an unusual amount of gnats have gathered and died on top of my roof. I suspect the heat fried them as they made contact. I don't know where I heard this, but I heard insects are attracted to light because it's essentially dark to them or something.. Maybe the glistening of sunlight off my overlay attracted them to their ultimate doom..
 

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I have noticed all sorts of flying bugs love to hang out on my car, especially right after I wash it. It it something with the white paint and the pearl in it.
 

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Just spray some bug-"bee" gone on it.
 

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I have noticed all sorts of flying bugs love to hang out on my car, especially right after I wash it. It it something with the white paint and the pearl in it.
Every time I wash my car (every other week) I throw a coat of Meguiars Ultimate Spray Wax on it and the stupid bugs go nuts. Also doesn't help that muggy Florida summers are ridiculous
 
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