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What special anatomical structures do the worker bee's front pair of legs have?

A worker uses her front pair of legs for many tasks but the front legs are specially designed to clean her antennae with bristles in a configuration such that she can pull her antennae past them in order to brush particles off them. It's a built-in antennae cleaner!

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