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The pollen basket or corbicula is part of the tibia
Arthropod leg

The arthropod leg is a form of jointed appendage of arthropods, usually used for walking. Many of the terms used for arthropod leg segments are of Latin origin, and may be confused with terms for bones: coxa , trochanter , femur, tibia, tarsus , ischium, metatarsus, carpus, dactylus , patella....
 on the hind legs of the four related lineages of apid
Apidae

The Apidae are a large family of bees, comprising the common honey bees, stingless bees , carpenter bees, euglossini, nomadinae, bumblebees, and various other less well-known groups....
 bees that used to comprise the family Apidae
Apidae

The Apidae are a large family of bees, comprising the common honey bees, stingless bees , carpenter bees, euglossini, nomadinae, bumblebees, and various other less well-known groups....
: the honey bee
Honey bee

Honey bees are a subset of bees, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of wiktionary:perennial, Colony nests out of beeswax....
s, bumblebees, stingless bee
Stingless bee

Stingless bees, or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees, comprising the tribe Meliponini in the family Apidae, and closely-related to the common honey bees, carpenter bees, Euglossini and bumblebees....
s, and orchid bees
Euglossini

Euglossine bees, also called orchid bees, are the only group of pollen basket bees whose non-parasitic members do not all possess eusociality....
. A honey bee moistens the forelegs with a protruding tongue and brushes the pollen
Pollen

Pollen is a fine to coarse powder consisting of Gametophyte , which produce the male gametes of spermatophyta. A hard coat covering the pollen grain protects the sperm cells during the process of their movement between the stamens of the flower to the pistil of the next flower....
 that has collected on head, body and forward appendages to the hind legs.






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The pollen basket or corbicula is part of the tibia
Arthropod leg

The arthropod leg is a form of jointed appendage of arthropods, usually used for walking. Many of the terms used for arthropod leg segments are of Latin origin, and may be confused with terms for bones: coxa , trochanter , femur, tibia, tarsus , ischium, metatarsus, carpus, dactylus , patella....
 on the hind legs of the four related lineages of apid
Apidae

The Apidae are a large family of bees, comprising the common honey bees, stingless bees , carpenter bees, euglossini, nomadinae, bumblebees, and various other less well-known groups....
 bees that used to comprise the family Apidae
Apidae

The Apidae are a large family of bees, comprising the common honey bees, stingless bees , carpenter bees, euglossini, nomadinae, bumblebees, and various other less well-known groups....
: the honey bee
Honey bee

Honey bees are a subset of bees, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of wiktionary:perennial, Colony nests out of beeswax....
s, bumblebees, stingless bee
Stingless bee

Stingless bees, or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees, comprising the tribe Meliponini in the family Apidae, and closely-related to the common honey bees, carpenter bees, Euglossini and bumblebees....
s, and orchid bees
Euglossini

Euglossine bees, also called orchid bees, are the only group of pollen basket bees whose non-parasitic members do not all possess eusociality....
. A honey bee moistens the forelegs with a protruding tongue and brushes the pollen
Pollen

Pollen is a fine to coarse powder consisting of Gametophyte , which produce the male gametes of spermatophyta. A hard coat covering the pollen grain protects the sperm cells during the process of their movement between the stamens of the flower to the pistil of the next flower....
 that has collected on head, body and forward appendages to the hind legs. First, the pollen is transferred to the pollen comb on the hind legs and then combed, pressed, compacted, and transferred to the outside surface of the tibia of the hind legs. There, the area of the tibia that - in most other bees - is the location of the scopa
Scopa (biology)

The term scopa is used to refer to any of a number of different modifications on the body of a non-parasitic bee that form a pollen-carrying apparatus....
 is a polished concavity surrounded by a fringe of hairs, into which the pollen is placed, and a single hair functions as a pin that secures the middle of the pollen load. Honey
Honey

Honey is a sweet fluid produced by honey bees , and derived from the nectar of flowers. According to the United States National Honey Board and various international food regulations, "honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance?this includes, but is not limited to, water or other sweeteners...
 and or nectar is used to moisten the dry pollen. The mixing of the pollen with nectar or honey changes the color of the pollen. The color of the pollen can identify the pollen source
Pollen source

The term pollen source is often used in the context of beekeeping and refers to flowering plants as a source of pollen for bees or other insects....
.

Apparently, Karl von Frisch
Karl von Frisch

Karl Ritter von Frisch was an Austrian ethology who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz....
 and other bee researchers have observed that individual honey bees are more or less efficient in packing pollen into the pollen basket. It takes an individual worker bee from three to eighteen minutes to complete a pollen load and return to the hive. Bees may collect both nectar and pollen. Some plants, such as poppy
Poppy

A poppy is any of a number of showy flowers, typically withone per Plant stem, belonging to the Papaveraceae. They include a number of attractive wildflower species with showy flowers found growing singularly or in large groups; many species are also grown in gardens....
, are a source only of pollen, others only of nectar.

See also

  • Pollen source
    Pollen source

    The term pollen source is often used in the context of beekeeping and refers to flowering plants as a source of pollen for bees or other insects....
  • Nectar source
    Nectar source

    A nectar source is a flowering plant that produces nectar as part of its reproductive strategy. These plants create nectar, which attract pollinating insects and sometimes other animals such as birds....
  • Western honey bee