Comfort in a Hive: Heads You're Hot, Tails You're Cold.

Item request has been placed! ×
Item request cannot be made. ×
loading   Processing Request
Read Online Read More Add to Saved list
  • Author(s): Heinrich, Bernd
  • Source:
    Natural History. Aug93, Vol. 102 Issue 8, p52. 4p. 3 Color Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      HONEYBEES; BEEKEEPING; INSECT societies; NECTARIVORES; BEEHIVES; BEES
    • Abstract:
      Describes the cooling system of honey bees. Advantages to staying hot for bees; How most large flying insects have evolved a mechanism to prevent overheating during flight; Differences between the bees in the core of the hive and those on the outermost edge; Physiology of the bees; How the flight muscles of bees must be hot enough to contract quickly during flight; Ability of mantle bees to affect the core temperature of a hive.