What are the distinctive and well-known structures on the bee’s largest pair of legs?

eliochel
Jan 16
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The corbiculae (singular: corbicula), often called pollen baskets. Here's a picture of a bee with light yellow filbert pollen pellets on her corbiculae.

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Bees are the only insect that makes a food that we eat.

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Other insects we may use as food (entomophagy), eating their larvae or adults, but only bees make honey, a food both they and we eat.

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What are the distinctive and well-known structures on the bee’s largest pair of legs?

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