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by Bart on May 26th, 2008
Well, most insects can fly as long as they are in air that's about fifty degrees Fahrenheit, or warmer. So, if air temperature at ground level is about seventy degrees, insects have about thirty-six hundred feet before they hit the ceiling, so to speak, and it's too cold. On ninety-degree days, that border is at about six thousand feet. (googled)
by anonymous on February 16th, 2007
as high as the sky
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Interesting about the temperature. A comment on the altitude - standard lapse rate is 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit per 1000 feet (not 5.6, or 6.7). Given 70 degrees on the ground, it would be 50 degrees just before 6000 feet.
At 90 degrees, it would be over 11,000 feet.
by Tveg on May 25th, 2009