Thorough warm-up before take-off in honey bee swarms

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 256-260

  Seeley, Thomas D ^a   Kleinhenz, Marco ^b   Bujok, Brigitte ^b   Tautz, Jürgen ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLIGHT MUSCLE; FLYING; HEATING; HONEYBEE; INSECT SWARM; NONHUMAN; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WARMING;

ANIMALIA; APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; INSECTA;

EID: 0038008197     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0425-4     Document Type: Article

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