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The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection - Dana Brackenridge Casteel
Dana Brackenridge Casteel
The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4064066157180
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.
THE STRUCTURES CONCERNED IN THE MANIPULATION OF POLLEN.
THE POLLEN SUPPLY.
GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE POLLEN-COLLECTING PROCESS.
ACTION OF THE FORELEGS AND MOUTHPARTS.
ACTION OF THE MIDDLE LEGS.
ACTION OF THE HIND LEGS.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF THE BASKET-LOADING PROCESS.
POLLEN MOISTENING.
STORING POLLEN IN THE HIVE.
SUMMARY.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
INDEX.
INTRODUCTION.
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While working upon the problem of wax-scale manipulation during the summer of 1911 the writer became convinced that the so-called wax shears or pinchers of the worker honey bee have nothing whatever to do with the extraction of the wax scales from their pockets, but rather that they are organs used in loading the pollen from the pollen combs of the hind legs into the corbiculæ or pollen baskets (Cast eel, 1912). Further observations made at that time disclosed the exact method by which the hind legs are instrumental in the pollen-loading process and also the way in which the middle legs aid the hind legs in patting down the pollen masses. During the summer of 1912 additional information was secured, more particularly that relating to the manner in which pollen is collected upon the body and legs of the bee, how it is transferred to the hind legs, how it is moistened, and finally the method by which it is stored in the hive for future use. In the present paper a complete account will be given of the history of the pollen from the time it leaves the flower until it rests within the cells of the hive. The points of more particular interest in the description of pollen manipulation refer to (1) the movements concerned in gathering the pollen from the flowers upon the body and legs, (2) the method by which the baskets of the hind legs receive the loads which they carry to the hive, and (3) the manner in which the bee moistens pollen and renders it sufficiently cohesive for packing and transportation.
THE STRUCTURES CONCERNED IN THE MANIPULATION OF POLLEN.
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The hairs which cover the body and appendages of the bee are of the utmost importance in the process of pollen gathering. For the purposes of this account these hairs may be classified roughly as (1) branched hairs and (2) unbranched hairs, the latter including both long, slender hairs and stiff, spinelike structures.
Of these two classes the branched hairs are the more numerous. They make up the hairy coat of the head, thorax, and abdomen, with the exception of short sensory spines, as those found upon the antennæ and perhaps elsewhere, and the stiff unbranched hairs which cover the surfaces of the compound eyes (Phillips, 1905). Branched hairs are also found upon the legs; more particularly upon the more proximal segments. A typical branched hair is composed of a long slender main axis from which spring numerous short lateral barbs. Grains of pollen are caught and held in the angles between the axis and the barbs and between the barbs of contiguous hairs. The hairy covering of the body and legs thus serves as a collecting surface upon which pollen grains are temporarily retained and from which they are later removed by the combing action of the brushes of the legs. Although, as above noted, some unbranched hairs are located upon the body of the bee, they occur in greatest numbers upon the more distal segments of the appendages. They are quite diverse in form, some being extremely long and