Le api bottinatrici una volta giunte nell'alveare si scambiano il nettare, quest'ultimo ad ogni passaggio si arricchisce e si trasforma in miele.

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Apis mellifera collecting resin from the leaf bases of Xanthorrhoea preissii trees that were recently demolished. The resin can be seen loaded on the corbicula/pollen basket on the hind legs.

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Specimen ID: 0039.

Sex: Female.

Collection Location: Memorial Park.

Plot: MP-7.

Collection Date: 25-Jun-2013.

Collector: Brick M. Fevold.

View of corbicula, the broadly flattened pollen-carrying baskets on the rear legs of Apis mellifera.