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Not lazy at all: honey bee drones

Sometimes it is worthwhile to look at the details, to study aspects that seem to be uninteresting or were previously ignored, and see noteworthy phenomena come to light. This has been the experience of honeybee researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) at the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. In a recently published study in Animal Behaviour, they showed that male honey bees (drones), long…

Threat to bumblebees from pesticides

Researchers from the University of Konstanz show in a new study the enormous influence of a new pesticide for the brood of bumblebees. They ascertain a decrease in colony growth by over 50 %.

ERC Starting Grant for Anna Stöckl

The European Research Council (ERC) awarded a Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros in funding to Konstanz biologist Anna Stöckl for her project "Closing the loop in dynamic vision – from single photons to behaviour in extreme light environments" (or "DynamicVision" for short).

Glyphosate impairs learning in bumblebees

What impacts do agrochemicals have on the ongoing global insect decline? Biologists at the University of Konstanz have found out that aversive learning is impaired in bumblebees exposed to glyphosate. Their study is published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

ICARUS flies faster, further

ICARUS has begun testing its new satellite receiver that will continue uninterrupted tracking of animals from space.

Messmer Prize 2023 for Liang Li

Every year, the Werner und Erika Messmer Foundation awards three science prizes to young researchers from the University of Konstanz from the post-doc phase onwards. In 2023, Liang Li, group leader at the Department of Biology at the University of Konstanz and a member of the CASCB, received the prize.

Blackbuck mating heaven

Teaser: The researchers Hemal Naik, Akanksha Rathore, and Vivek Hari Sridhar went to Rajasthan, India, to study the mating behaviour of blackbucks from a bird's eye perspective. Read what they encountered during six adventurous weeks in the field.