Honeybee Foreleg (Whole Mount)
Apis mellifera
A whole mount (w.m.) preparation of a honeybee foreleg. The slide highlights specialized adaptations for grooming, notably the antenna cleaner (a semicircular notch on the basitarsus covered with fine comb-like bristles, closed by a velum projecting from the tibia) along with dense eye brushes and terminal tarsal claws.
- Category
- Invertebrates
- Magnification
- 20x
- Stain
- Unstained
- Tags
- Honeybee foreleg w.m., Honeybee Foreleg w.m., Honeybee foreleg whole mount, Apis mellifera, Honeybee, Hymenoptera, Apidae, Arthropoda, Insect leg, Antenna cleaner, Basitarsus, Velum, Insect anatomy, Entomology, Invertebrate histology, Whole mount, Unstained
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