Knowledge graph centered on operative temperature (Silphidae) with 25 nodes and 97 connections. Top connected: Bombus, Populus, Populus tremuloides, Apis mellifera, Colias.
Method for measuring thoracic and abdominal temperatures of flying insects before, during, and after controlled flight using hypodermic temperature probes and digital thermometers. Beetles placed on angled stick to initiate flight, with temperatures measured within seconds of landing.
Synthesized from method descriptions across 1 paper using this protocol.
Steps below were extracted from the paper that introduces this protocol — Temperature regulation in burying beetles (<i>Nicrophorus</i> spp.: Coleoptera: Silphidae): effects of body size, morphology and environmental temperature (2004), The Journal of Experimental Biology. Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.