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Evaporative and excretory water loss during free flight in pigeons

✍ Scribed by I. Giladi; B. Pinshow

Book ID
106044954
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
127 KB
Volume
169
Category
Article
ISSN
0174-1578

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## Abstract The carpenter bee __Xylocopa capitata__ has a high wing loading (425 mg cm^βˆ’2^ in females with empty crops) and exhibits a very high mass‐specific oxygen consumption during flight (mean for free flight 52.3 ml O~2~ gm^βˆ’1^ hour^βˆ’1^). Evaporative water loss is also high during flight (26.