Thermal investigations of a honey bee colony: thermoregulation of the hive during summer and winter and heat production of members of different bee castes

A model for heat production and thermore

A model for heat production and thermoregulation in winter clusters of honey bees using differential heat conduction equations

✍ M. Lemke; I. Lamprecht 📂 Article 📅 1990 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 618 KB

A model is proposed for heat production and thermoregulation in the winter cluster of the honey bee Apis mellifera. It describes heat production within the cluster by an exponential decrease from the periphery to the centre, and takes into account threshold values for the central and the peripheral