Honeybee research. Researcher conducting an experiment to quantify the heat generated by a honeybee. Heat created by adult bees in a hive aids the dev

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Honeybee research. Researcher conducting an experiment to quantify the heat generated by a honeybee. Heat created by adult bees in a hive aids the development of pupae by keeping them warm. Pupae develop inside wax cells in honeycomb, a section of which is seen resting on top of an Ulbricht sphere. Ulbricht spheres are used to measure the reflected heat from an object, in this case a bee, inside the sphere.

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Photo credit: © VOLKER STEGER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: animal, apis, bee, beeswax, biological, biology, cells, experiment, experimental, experimentation, german, germany, heat, honeybee, honeycomb, insect, male, man, mellifera, physics, reflectivity, research, researcher, science, scientific, sphere, thermal, thermodynamics, ulbricht, wax