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| Closeup of hairs on the thorax of a worker bee. Notice that each hair is branched (plumose), enabling it to trap pollen grains more effectively. Viewed: 3349 times. |
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| A worker with the top cuticle removed from the thorax to show the thoracic muscles. The middle two (looked like one but it is ctually two) are the longitudinal muscles, which run from the head direction to abdomone direction. While the two near the wings are the verticle muscles. Viewed: 3139 times. |
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| front_leg.jpg Viewed: 2809 times. |
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| Hind leg of worker bee. The pollen basket is on the other side of the tibia (see next slide). Here you can see rows of think bristles on the basitarsus. Viewed: 2755 times. |
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| Pollen basket on the hind leg. The bascket has long bristles (curved) on both sides, and there is also a signle bristle in the middle. Viewed: 3196 times. |
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| Rake (lower) and pollen press on the hindleg of a worker bee. Viewed: 2882 times. |
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| Closeup of the tip of a leg, showing the two claws on the sides and a soft pad (arolium) in the middle. The claws allow workers to grab on rough surfaces, while the arolium works as a suction pad to hold on to smooth surfaces. Viewed: 2443 times. |
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| Front wing (top) and hind wing (below). The two are synchronized together by a row of small hooks on hind wing and a fold on the rear edge of the front wing. Viewed: 3860 times. |
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| Wing hooks (hamuli) on the front edge of the hind wing and the fold of the front wing. Viewed: 3061 times. |
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Album: Anatomy & Morphology 
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