| Unemployed bees
get job taking heat
Adult bees cluster
to form a living shield that protects the brood from overheating.
References:
Starks, P.T.,
and D.C. Gilley. 1999. Heat shielding: A novel method of colonial
thermoregulation in honey bees. Naturwissenschaften
86(September):438.
Sources:
David. C. Gilley
Cornell University
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
202 Sapsuckerwoods Road, #1a
Ithaca, NY 14850
Philip T. Starks
University of California, Berkeley
Environmental Science, Policy and Management
201 Wellman Hall #3112
Berkeley, CA 94720-3112
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 14, October 2, 1999, p. 219. Copyright © 1999,
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