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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: 2482 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: 2377 times. |
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| front_leg.jpg Viewed: 2097 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: 2036 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: 2336 times. |
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| Rake (lower) and pollen press on the hindleg of a worker bee. Viewed: 1971 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: 1773 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: 3027 times. |
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| Wing hooks (hamuli) on the front edge of the hind wing and the fold of the front wing. Viewed: 2108 times. |
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Album: Anatomy & Morphology 
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