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Published online 5 June 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030602-11
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Natural thermoelectric heat pump in social wasps
Proposal of vespine heat pump stings insect researchers.
How does a busy hornet keep cool? Its skin is an electrical heat pump, claim Israeli researchers - the first suggestion of such a mechanism in an animal.
The idea has stung insect specialists.
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