The Influence Of Honey Bees

The honey bee is a fascinating and important figure for pollinating flowers, fruits, and vegetables, they help other plants grow by transferring pollen between the male and female parts, supporting plants to grow seeds. Honey bees are insects have have three segments of their body, which six of them are visible and the other three parts include: legs, singer, and antenna. Honeybees have a exoframe, which is stiff and contains an overlay of wax, but honeybees do not have internal bones compared to vertebrates. The primary division of the exoframe is the chitin, “a polymer of glucose and can support a lot of weight with very little material” (Huang, Z., 2014). The overlay of wax guards the honey bee from losing water, or “ desiccation”. The advantage of chitin on bees is that, it prevents the bee from growing precedingly, but to shed their skins continuously during the larval stage and to be the same size through the adult stage.
Honey bees also have a disclosed circulatory system, in other words, they do not have veins or arteries, but rather one internal organ containing a liquid substance named ‘hemolymph’ which is a mixture of blood and lymphatic fluid.
Honey bees breathe from a multiplex arrangement of chain of tracheas and their air sacs. Oxygen is transferred from the through the opened spiracles of each individual segments and compressed into individual tubules from individual cells. With the help of air sacs the spiracles close and the compressed air reaches the smaller sizes of the tracheas until they reach the cells. Wings of the honey bees allow them to fly up to three miles from the hive and up to fifteen miles per hour. Their compound eyes help them see in virtually all directions and the eye is separated into 6,500 faucets, but they cannot perceive the color red as for humans; they see red as black. Their antennas are a sensitive sector, containing smell and taste
cells. However, their antennas are much more keen compared to other mammals because it guides them to their next food while connecting with other hive members, and broadcast information about their flight and orientation during their flight. Their bodies are composed of branched setae which sticks onto flowers and the plants soon become pollinated, as some of the pollen grains travel onto other plants, the remaining pollen is later carried back into the hive. Most commonly, honeybees have branched setae on their bodies, it subserves their sense of touch, however, the bifurcate hairs are unique to them. The stable base for transportation, walking and standing comes from the honey bee’s six strong legs, this secures at least three legs are in interaction with the surface at all times. Every foot constitutes for uneven surfaces and an adhesive-like pad for smooth surface traction. The pollen basket called the corbicula, which are long, immobile hairs that swerve about the board level sector of the back legs. The hairs on the rest of the legs are responsible to comb the pollen grains from the body, which is collected and placed in the pollen basket and awaits for its transport to the hive.