It has been very quiet around here recently. The reason was that I was away for a particular kind of behavioral and physiological experiments, traveling to places like these:











There, I tried to imitate insects like this one:



Or this one:



with artificial flies such as the one depicted below the original in the picture above. The reason for imitating these insects was to convert as many of these:



or these:



Into something more palatable, such as these:





List of vertebrate species in order of appearance: Thymallus thymallus, Coregonus sp., Perca fluviatilis, Salmo trutta.

I'm now back in Berlin, though, and will be busy doing the more conventional experiments around here.