> We have some data that suggest bees may be able to transfer heat between parts of the body.
Maybe more so in workers than drones. This study has some interesting data and clever experiments that help explain observable behaviors like why drones don't fly as much on really hot days.
> Drones were unable to lower [the temperature of their thorax] through regurgitation or through shunting heat to the abdomen.
>Heat Transfer and Body Temperature in Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Drones and Workers
>JOSEPH R. COELHOT
>https://academic.oup.com/ee/article-abstract/20/6/1627/2394365
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