We love the detail of the swans and flying flowers.
"It's only in the last 5 to 10 years that we've been flying flowers this way," said Mr. Peart, who has had his large, carefully tended stand for 25 years.
Some of his targets do get a bit skittish around flying flowers; but he tips them off by sending a bottle of Dom Perignon backstage, letting them know they should "keep an eye out" for a bouquet.
If the nectar-drinking hummingbird were asked to exercise her will to the highest rational standard, she'd keep flying from flower to flower.
The Sarajevo players remembered him making them lie on the floor in a darkened room while he played taped music and told them to imagine themselves as bumblebees flying from flower to flower.
The zoo's luxuriant gardens made us want to visit the Jersey Flower Center, home of Flying Flowers, one of the largest mail-order floral companies in the world.
At first, Lihoreau says, he tried to track the bees' movements by running alongside them as they flew from flower to flower, "but they are so fast, it wasn't possible".
It would be useful, for example, to compare the brains of social worker bees, which process vast quantities of visual information as they fly from flower to flower, with those of parasitic wasps.
He explains it on his website: "The robots drew one line pattern solutions, the shortest line possible, derived from theories on how bees fly from flower to flower.
Euglossine bees are common in lowland forests; in one area studied, 20 to 40 different species were recorded flying between flowers on any given day.
