Bernd Heinrich
The Hot-Blooded Insects, Harvard UP, March, $75
523 pages plus god knows how many pages of notes
and index, hundreds of drawings, photos, charts
exhaustive review of INSECT THERMOREGULATION, in all
its guises, even those insects that DO NOT thermoregulate.
A review will follow. One chapter on "Social thermoregulation"
deals with ants, termites, wasps, honeybees, but there is also
good material on bumblebees, tropical bees, you name it.
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