In this work, we look at the flight statistics of foraging
bumblebees and its changes due to the presence of different kinds of
artificial spiders. We are analysing the velocity distributions of the
bumblebee flights given data from an experiment done by Tom Ings and
Lars Chittka. Via Quantile-Quantile-plots we find that the
distributions differ in the tails under varying environmental
conditions and also for the different directions of the flights. With a
Maximum-Likelihood-Estimate we try to find the likeliest shape of the
distribution at the tails and look at the importance of the choice of
the cutoff value for the estimation.