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Science 1 May 1981:
Vol. 212. no. 4494, pp. 565 - 566
DOI: 10.1126/science.212.4494.565
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Energetics of Honeybee Swarm Thermoregulation

BERND HEINRICH 1

1 Department of Zoology, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405

Honeybee swarms regulate their core temperature at a high set point (near 36°C) and the mantle at a low set point (near 15°C). The temperature gradient from core to mantle permits considerable energy economy, and it is abolished only shortly before swarm takeoff.

Submitted on September 24, 1980
Revised on January 19, 1981


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