Andrew Straw

@andrewstraw.bsky.social

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I'm a Professor in the Faculty of Biology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. I'm fascinated by visual navigation in insects. We study this and also develop tools to help us with that. https://strawlab.org/

Photograph of multicopter drone and bee hive.

Heat map showing the proportion of flight aligned to the target "Inbound - Gap", at different angular thresholds when the trajectories are divided into 20 segments.

Scatter plots of bee trajectories crossing planes at select locations along their route.

Outbound and inbound trajectories from two bees.

Bee with reflective marker.