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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Not sure if it is just hidden, but this pinned honey bee seems to be lacking its left metathoracic leg. It can sometimes happen that honey bees get one or more of their legs trapped
on Asclepias flowers, such that freeing themselves (if successful) may only be possible through a struggle that can cause loss of a leg.
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<div>I recall that there was a study some time ago on fate of adult worker honey bees that suffered lost legs - </div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; color: rgb(26, 26, 24); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Jay, S.C. 1969. The effect of leg removal on bees held in packages. Journal of Apicultural Research 8: 147-151.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br>
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<div>Otherwise, this specimen has the largest mass of Asclepias pollinia attached to its other legs, that I've seen.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Art Davis</div>
<div>Univ of Saskatchewan</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 27, 2015 1:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bee United; Pollinator List-serv<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pollinator] What's wrong with this picture?<br>
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<div dir="ltr">The warm weather has arrived. Honeybees are visiting the early milkweeds of North America so... what's wrong with this picture (taken this morning from a specimen collected last week)?
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<div>Peter</div>
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