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    Solar energy harvesting in the epicuticle of the oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis)

    The Oriental hornet worker correlates its digging activity with solar insolation. Solar radiation passes through the epicuticle, which exhibits a grating-like structure, and continues to pass through layers of...

    Marian Plotkin, Idan Hod, Arie Zaban, Stuart A. Boden… in Naturwissenschaften (2010)

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    Gravity orientation in social wasp comb cells (Vespinae) and the possible role of embedded minerals

    Social wasps and hornets maintain their nest in the dark. The building of the combs by all Vespinae is always in the direction of the gravitational force of Earth, and in each cell’s ceiling, at least one ‘key...

    Jacob S. Ishay, Zahava Barkay, Noam Eliaz, Marian Plotkin… in Naturwissenschaften (2008)