The Making of a Bee Documentary
Ein Freund aus Tübingen machte mich vor kurzem auf das „Projekt Wildbienenschutz“ in Rottenburg am Neckar aufmerksam. Meinrad Lohmüller, Lehrer und Fachleiter für Biologie, setzt sich dort seit Jahren für die Wildbienen ein und war so nett, für uns ein paar Fragen zu beantworten. A friend in Tübingen recently pointed me to a very intersting [...]
Things are beginning to fall into place. We’ll take up shooting mid-May in Switzerland. Weather voodoo starts now. Don’t need blue skies, but decent temperatures for bees to come out. And some flowers. Should be okay, though, at this time of the year. Even at 1200m. But it has been a long winter in Switzerland [...]
For the film, we are strongly depending on support from experts all over the world. Some of them we will introduce in this blog over the coming months. For today, I asked Randy Oliver in California some questions. Randy is a beekeeper, a scientist and an excellent communicator. He mostly publishes in the American Bee [...]
The bee-virus is spreading. Over easter, my friends Johannes (12) and Elisabeth (16) got infected and took these wonderful bee-pictures for me! Das Bienen-Virus greift um sich! Meine Freunde Johannes (12) und Elisabeth (16) sind jedenfalls schon angesteckt. Sie haben über Ostern diese wunderbaren Bienen- und Hummelbilder geschossen. Vielen Dank! Steinhummel (Bombus lapidarius) More on [...]
I really didn’t expect this blog to start out quite so frivolous, but here we go. Since we have been talking about bee reproduction quite a bit recently, I couldn’t possibly withhold from you one of the finest examples of how science and entertainment can go together. And of course it is always a pleasure [...]
And quite differently, too. So evolution provided them with certain adaptations. This is to be expected, but many of the specifics of these adaptations are still not very well understood. In March, Boris Baer, one of our advisors for the film, and his colleagues in Copenhagen have published a very interesting paper on these matters [...]
Zu Demonstrationszwecken hat Klaus Wallner an der Universität Hohenheim dieses zauberhafte „Flaschenvolk“ herangezogen. Absolut faszinierend! Man bekommt eine wirklich gute Idee davon, wie es so läuft im Bienenstock – die Sache mit dem Beespace (oder eher dem „No-Space“), Pollentransport und Lagerwesen, die Kantinengespräche – all das lässt sich hervorragend beabachten. Normalerweise ist das „Ei“ in [...]
