Inside out.
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- Mo Vaughan
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- Joined: Sun Aug 12, 2007 3:16 am
- Location: Cambridgeshire UK
Inside out.
from the top,
all these photos are of Apis mellifera mellifera the European Honey bee.
The first one shows the dorsal diaphragm with the aorta tuble running the length of the exoskeleton which will eventually conect to the brain as this is how the blood of the bee is passed around the body.
second. here we can just see the oesophagus which starts in the mouth of the bee,then we see the honey sac (empty), then the proventriculus into the main gut (ventriculus).
third. here we see the rctum fully extended showing the rectal pads, (white thich lines around the edge of the rectum). Also there are pollen grains in the rectum ready to be discharged. The shiny object on the end is the sting apparatus.
Its something different.
Mo.
Thebeeman