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The changes in temperature occurring in the body of a flying blowfly are measured with the non-invasive technique of thermal imaging. It is found that during rest the temperatures of the three main body compartments, i.e. head, thorax and abdomen, approximately equal the ambient temperature. Upon flight onset the thorax temperature increases about exponentially, with a time constant ≈ 30 s. In steady flight, the thorax temperature is ≈ 5 °C higher than the ambient temperature (≈ 25 °C). After flight, the temperature of the thorax decreases, again about exponentially, with a time constant of ≈ 50 s. A three compartment model of the insect body allows a quantitative description of these temperature changes, thus yielding values for the blowfly’s thermal parameters.
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Stavenga, D.G., Tinbergen, J., Schwering, P.B.W. (1994). Non-Invasive Measurement of Temperature Changes In Tethered Flying Blowflies By Thermal Imaging. In: Maldague, X.P.V. (eds) Advances in Signal Processing for Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials. NATO ASI Series, vol 262. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1056-3_37
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