Figures 2.11


Frontal view of the head of a worker honey bee, Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with transverse section of proboscis showing how the “tongue” (fused labial glossae) is enclosed within the sucking tube formed from the maxillary galae and labial palps.
Figures 2.11. Frontal view of the head of a worker honey bee, Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with transverse section of proboscis showing how the “tongue” (fused labial glossae) is enclosed within the sucking tube formed from the maxillary galae and labial palps.

(Inset after Wigglesworth 1964)

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