After tick outthese awesome photographsof the super - magnified ( and rather gorgeous ) side of bees , a question arose : Do bee have hair ?
https://gizmodo.com/close-up-bee-portraits-are-a-glimpse-into-a-gorgeously-1593799030
So they do ? Well , sort of , as commenter and current entomology PhD studentLucy Cooperexplains
Sort of ; they ’re special dermal cell called seta ; fundamentally extensions of the cuticle . Setae can have a bevy of functions ranging from insulation , to detection of bowel movement ( i.e wind speed / focussing ) , to pollen gathering . In some butterflies the front- and hind - annex are hold together by a seta from the hind - flank called the frenulum , that catches on a lure or another plot of land of seta on the fore - wing , cry the retinaculum .
epitome : Sam Droege / USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab
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