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THE ANATOMY OF BEES
Allen Perkins Sr.
FED 529
Computer-Based
Instructional Technology
BEE ANATOMY
• Head - contains eyes,
antennae, and feeding
structures.
• Thorax - contains wings,
legs, and muscles
involved in movement
• Abdomen - has seven segments
and contains female
reproductive organs in the
queen, male reproductive
organs in the drone, and the
stinger in both workers and
queen.
BEE SOCIAL STRUCTURE
• The HONEY BEE
community consists of
three structurally
different forms—
• THE QUEEN
(reproductive female),
• THE WORKER
(sterile female).
• THE DRONE (male)
HONEY CREATION
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Honeybees use nectar to make
honey.
They use their long, tubelike
tongues like straws to suck the
nectar out of the flowers and they
store it in their "honey stomachs".
• The honeybees return to the hive
and pass the nectar onto other
worker bees. These bees suck the
nectar from the honeybee's
stomach through their mouth
• These "house bees" "chew" the
nectar for about half an hour.
During this time, enzymes are
breaking the complex sugars in the
nectar into simple sugars so that it
is both more digestible for the bees
and less likely to be attacked by
bacteria while it is stored within
the hive.
POLLINATION
• Pollination is the process by
which pollen is transferred
from the anthers of flowers,
the male element, to the
stigma, or female element, of
the same flower.
• This transfer precedes
fertilization, in which the
pollen tubes grow down the
stigma from the implanted
pollen grains to the ovary.
• Cell nuclei from the pollen
grain and the ovary then fuse
to begin the process of
ovulation.
THE END