Changes in temperature and light alter the flight speed of hornets (Vespa crabro L.)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 188-193

  Spiewok, Sebastian ^a   Schmolz, Erik ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; INSECT; LIGHT EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FLYING; LIGHT; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; WASP;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; LIGHT; MALE; TEMPERATURE; WASPS;

INSECTA; VESPA CRABRO; VESPIDAE;

EID: 30944460194     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498181     Document Type: Article

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