To be or not to be...A bee

摘要

In a previous article I covered the wings and flying and their part in locomotion. Locomotion is the major function of the thorax, and why these segments are almost entirely filled with muscles. Now I want to cover the legs of the honey bee, certainlya part of locomotion yet in the honey bee the legs are used for so much more. As a typical insect, the bees have three pairs of legs, one pair for each thoracic segment. Each leg of an insect consists of five segments, some of which have multiple parts. Starting at the body these segments are the coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia and tarsus.