ENVS 2210 Chapter : Bee's Biology and management pages 1-50
9 Feb 2012
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Bees from the outside: general external anatomy, body segment by body segment (head, thorax, Five eyes of two kinds (two large compound eyes and three smaller ocelli) Organs of smell, taste, touch, hearing (the head is the sensory and feeding center) Made of three segments (contains engine for movement) Five pairs of appendages, three pairs of legs and two pairs of wings. Legs are for walking, gripping,landing (has toes and has three legs touching the ground at all times so you cant really push a bee over) -> specializations for harvesting pollen on legs. Wings (extentions of body wall)-> fore and hind wing act together as a single wing. Tucked inside the tip of the abdomen are the highly reduced segments that make up the sting apparatus in female bees and the male intromittent (put between) organ or endophallus. Bees can be thought of as specialized vegetarian wasps.
