THE RESPONSE OF HONEY BEES TO VARIATIONS IN SOLAR-RADIATION AND TEMPERATURE
THE RESPONSE OF HONEY BEES TO VARIATIONS IN SOLAR-RADIATION AND TEMPERATURE
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DOI:
10.1051/apido:19810402
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
DIETZ, A
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作者:
BURRILL, RM;DIETZ, A
The development of the Apicard automatic honey-bee counting and recording device is a means for continuous sampling of honey bee activity at the hive entrance and simultaneously recording the data obtained. These data provide a measure with which quantitative expression of the daily activity cycle for a honey-bee colony are made. Activity responses to 2 weather elements, solar radiation and temperature are considered. For temperature, the response is positive. Increasing temperatures result in increasing flight departures while decreasing temperatures show decreasing numbers of departures. In the case of solar radiation intensity, the response is both positive and negative. At low radiation levels, increasing intensity is associated with increasing numbers of flight departures but at solar radiation levels greater than 0.66 langleys, increasing intensities are associated with decreasing numbers of honey bee flight departures.