Metabolic rates and metabolic power of honeybees in tethered flight related to temperature and drag (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-30

  Hrassnigg, Norbert ^a,b   Crailsheim, Karl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ambient temperature; Apis mellifera carnica Pollmann 1879; Flight metabolism; Flight velocity; Oxygen consumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009942227     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/24/1999/23     Document Type: Article

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