COOL COOL BEE PICS
We Love using the microscopes to look at the Bees up close
(and other stuff too)
They are AMAZING
This a barbed bee stinger, sharper than a sewing needle and you can see the channel for the venom to travel through.
This is the venom sac that is attached to the stinger and pumps the venom through
Beeutiful bee belly
A honeybee tongue. Notice the tiny hairs on the tongue as well as on the mouth parts
The branched tip of her tongue
A close up of the body hair, looks like a branched wheat field
A honeybee eye, hairs are on the compound eye
A honeybee antennae, an amazing structure
Beautiful delicate wings
A closer magnification of the wing texture reflecting the light spectrum
And even tiny hairs grow on the delicate wing, amazing
The 2 pair of wings hook together in flight. These triangles are the wing hooks
These are some amazing shapes of the pollen granules in our honey