Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Heating of wintering bee bodies related to external air temperature

  • Short Communications
  • Published:
Entomological Review Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The temperature of different parts of bee bodies related to external air temperature and localization of bees in the colony was determined using the thermal imaging method. A feedback between external air temperature and heating of bee bodies was revealed. The thoracic part of the body had a relatively high temperature irrespective of the localization of bees in the colony.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Esch, H., “Über die Korpertermperaturen und Warmehaushalt von Apis mellifera,” Zeit. vergl. Physiol. 43(1), 305–335 (1960).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Es’kov, E.K., Ecology of the Honey-Bee (Russkoye Slovo, Ryazan, 1995) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  3. Es’kov, E.K., “The Temperature of Maximum Cooling of the Honey-Bee and Its Phylogenetic Specificity,” Izvestiya Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Biol. 2(4), 535–545 (1984).

    Google Scholar 

  4. Es’kov, E.K., “Individual and Social Adaptations of Bees to Wintering,” Uspekhi Sovremennoi Biologii 123(4), 383–390 (2003).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, Balashikha, Moscow oblast, 143900, Russia

    E. K. Es’kov & V. A. Toboev

Authors
  1. E. K. Es’kov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. V. A. Toboev
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to E. K. Es’kov.

Additional information

Original Russian Text © E.K. Es’kov, V.A. Toboev, 2009, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2009, Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 125–126.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Es’kov, E.K., Toboev, V.A. Heating of wintering bee bodies related to external air temperature. Entmol. Rev. 89, 111–112 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873809010151

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873809010151

Keywords

Search

Navigation