Late summer in Lower Franconia: There are hardly any flowering plants left, and food for honey bees is becoming scarce. Researchers at the Biocenter have investigated how bees cope with this situation ...

A team from the University of Freiburg led by neurobiologist and behavioural biologist Prof. Dr. Andrew Straw studied the flight behaviour of honey bees. Using a drone, the researchers tracked honey ...

Honeybees are among the widely studied insects, due to their sophisticated, hierarchical social organization and their essential ecological role. Bees can move swiftly in natural environments, passing ...

Researchers tracked honey bees in the wild using a drone-based system and found that each bee follows its own highly consistent flight path. Some repeated their routes so precisely that they flew only ...