Flight of the honey bee

The aerodynamics of hovering insect flight. I. The quasi-steady analysis

Charles P. Ellington · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 1984 · 669 citations

Engineering, Entomology, Zoology +15

Fat combustion and metabolic rate of flying locusts ( <i>Schistocerca gregaria</i> Forskål)

Torkel Weis‐Fogh · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 1952 · 366 citations

Life Sciences, Entomology, Zoology +13

Energetics of Hovering Flight in Hummingbirds and in Drosophila

Torkel Weis‐Fogh · Journal of Experimental Biology · 1972 · 364 citations

Life Sciences, Entomology, Zoology +14

The intrinsic range and speed of flight of insects.

B. Hocking · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 1953 · 299 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Entomology +10

Thermoregulation in bumblebees

Bernd Heinrich · Journal of Comparative Physiology B · 1975 · 287 citations