Ciber Movie

A movie about honeybees!

We were apprached by a Swiss movie maker Markus Imhoof whether we could provide help in the making of a docummentary for international theatrical release. In short, the movie wants to offer fascinating insights into the biology of the honeybee and the longstanding and tight relationships between human mankind and bee and to point out the importance of bees for men. It plans to reflect on the differences as well as the similarities between human and bee societies. It also aims to summarize the possible reasons and consequences of the currently observed global decline in bee populations.

CIBER offers Markus Imhoof the necessary contacts to bee experts and allows him access to bees, for example to develop the technically challenging filming with micro cameras to visualize individual behaviors of bees within the hive. This part of the work is also of scientific interest as the availability of such a technique would be of great scientific value for future behavioral studies, for example to observe the behavior of bees towards diseased individuals or to test our hypothesis that seminal fluid proteins indeed change the behavior of the queen.