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To Bee: Biohybridity and learning the ‘language’ of bees
During the week we met Anna, a beekeeper at Prinzessinnengarten, who wondered what it would be like to be a bee for a day. Karl von Frisch discovered that bees possess a ‘language’ through a series of experiments he began … Continue reading
Frei-bees
Biologist and biodiversity researcher Dr Casper Schönig manages a number of urban beehives around Berlin, including some we visited in the garden at Cafe Botanico over the weekend. He traces the tradition of beekeeping in Berlin through to the DDR, when honey functioned … Continue reading
“Geruchssinn der Bienen” by Karl von Frisch (1927)
The film “Geruchssinn der Bienen” by Karl von Frisch (1927). Source: IWF/C56. By kind permission of IWF. Sourced from: Tania Munz, ‘Numbering Bees—A History of the Bee Language: Karl von Frisch, the Honeybee Dances, and Twentieth-Century Sciences of Communication.’ Karl … Continue reading