Pollen-Carrying Leg of Honeybee (Whole Mount)
Apis mellifera
A whole mount (W.M.) preparation of a worker honeybee hind leg specialized for foraging. The slide clearly shows the corbicula (pollen basket) on the outer flattened surface of the tibia bounded by stiff bristles, along with the enlarged basitarsus bearing pollen combs (transverse rows of stiff setae) used to collect and pack pollen grains.
- Category
- Invertebrates
- Magnification
- 20x
- Stain
- Unstained
- Tags
- Pollen-carrying leg of Honeybee W.M., Pollen-carrying leg of Honeybee, Honeybee hind leg whole mount, Apis mellifera, Honeybee, Hymenoptera, Apidae, Arthropoda, Insect leg, Corbicula, Pollen basket, Basitarsus, Pollen comb, Insect anatomy, Entomology, Invertebrate histology, Whole mount, Unstained
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