Starks, Philip T.; Johnson, Rebecca N.; Siegel, Adam J.; … - In: Behavioral Ecology 16 (2005) 1, pp. 128-132
Heat shielding is a recently identified mechanism used by worker honey bees (Apis mellifera) to help maintain constant hive temperatures. Only workers perform this behavior; in our experiment, drones actively avoided heated hive regions. Observations of marked day-old cohorts within broodcomb...