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Wasp Hawking Induces Endothermic Heat Production in Guard Bees

When vespine wasps, Vespa velutina Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), hawk (capture) bees at their nest entrances alerted and poised guards of Apis cerana cerana F. and Apis mellifera ligustica Spinola (Hymenoptera: Apidae) have average thoracic temperatures slightly above 24° C. Many additional wo...

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Autores principales: Tan, K., Li, H., Yang, M.X., Hepburn, H.R., Radloff, S.E.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Wisconsin Library 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21073346
http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.010.14102