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Venom gland

honey bee venom gland

Venom gland and venom sack (called also poison gland and poison sack) of honey bee worker. After Snodgrass (1910, fig. 36) The anatomy of the honey bee,
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, Technical Series
, Volume 18, Washington, DC, p.1-162, (1910)
[1] and Mota (1988) Ocorrência e morfometria de glândulas tegumentares abdominais em Apis mellifera L.(Hymenoptera, Apidae),
Revista Brasileira de Zoologia
, Volume 5, Number 1, p.119–154, (1988)
[2]. (scale bar = 0.5 mm)


Ultraestrutura do aparelho venenifero de Apis (Hymenoptera, Apidae),
Mem. Inst. Butantan Sao Paulo
, Volume 33, p.701-711, (1966)
[3]Fine structure of the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) venom gland and reservoir: a system for the secretion and storage of a naturally produced toxin,
Microscop. Soc. Can.
, Volume 4, p.50-51, (1977)
[4]The morphology of the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) venom gland and reservoir,
Journal of Morphology
, Volume 181, Number 1, p.69–86, (1984)
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