>Dick, please show us these "accounts you've read", for the benifit of the Bee-L readers, please 
support your comment with references.

>I know where my refrences are, but I won't do your homework for you.


“Lindauer (1954) placed a hive of bees in full sunlight on a lava field near Salerno, Italy, where the 
*surface* (my italics) temperature reached 70º C. As long as he permitted workers to take all the 
water they wanted from a nearby fountain, they were able to maintain the temperature inside the 
hive at the desired 35º C.”

The above is from E.O. Wilson’s book: ‘The Insect Societies’. The reference quoted by Wilson in his 
bibliography is a German paper by Lindauer: ‘Temperaturregulierung und Wasserhaushalt im 
Bienenstat’.

(FYI, my brother and I re-shingled my roof about 5 years ago. The surface of the roof was 
considerably, and I mean *considerably*, hotter than the area an inch or two above the tar paper.) 

Regards,
Dick Allen

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