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They see by UV, not through it, same as we see by visible light.

Almost all insects see into the ultraviolet range (the wave length is shorter and so their eyes can be smaller) and almost all flowers are patterned in UV to attract the insects that can see it.

[The pretty colors that we admire are an accident.]

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