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Respiratory evaporative water loss during hovering and forward flight in hummingbirds

✍ Scribed by Donald R. Powers; Philip W. Getsinger; Bret W. Tobalske; Susan M. Wethington; Sean D. Powers; Douglas R. Warrick

Book ID
113522300
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
611 KB
Volume
161
Category
Article
ISSN
1095-6433

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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.