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Nectar Feeding by a Honey Bee’s Hairy Tongue: Morphology, Dynamics, and Energy-Saving Strategies

SIMPLE SUMMARY: This paper reviews the interdisciplinary research on nectar feeding behaviour of honey bees ranging from morphology, dynamics, and energy-saving strategies, which collects a range of knowledge of feeding physiology of honey bees and may inspire the design paradigms of next-generation...

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Autores principales: Wang, Hao, Wu, Zhigang, Zhao, Jieliang, Wu, Jianing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8465255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34564203
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects12090762
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Wu, Zhigang
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: This paper reviews the interdisciplinary research on nectar feeding behaviour of honey bees ranging from morphology, dynamics, and energy-saving strategies, which collects a range of knowledge of feeding physiology of honey bees and may inspire the design paradigms of next-generation multifunctional microfluidic transporters. ABSTRACT: Most flower-visiting insects have evolved highly specialized morphological structures to facilitate nectar feeding. As a typical pollinator, the honey bee has specialized mouth parts comprised of a pair of galeae, a pair of labial palpi, and a glossa, to feed on the nectar by the feeding modes of lapping or sucking. To extensively elucidate the mechanism of a bee’s feeding, we should combine the investigations from glossa morphology, feeding behaviour, and mathematical models. This paper reviews the interdisciplinary research on nectar feeding behaviour of honey bees ranging from morphology, dynamics, and energy-saving strategies, which may not only reveal the mechanism of nectar feeding by honey bees but inspire engineered facilities for microfluidic transport.
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spelling pubmed-84652552021-09-27 Nectar Feeding by a Honey Bee’s Hairy Tongue: Morphology, Dynamics, and Energy-Saving Strategies Wang, Hao Wu, Zhigang Zhao, Jieliang Wu, Jianing Insects Review SIMPLE SUMMARY: This paper reviews the interdisciplinary research on nectar feeding behaviour of honey bees ranging from morphology, dynamics, and energy-saving strategies, which collects a range of knowledge of feeding physiology of honey bees and may inspire the design paradigms of next-generation multifunctional microfluidic transporters. ABSTRACT: Most flower-visiting insects have evolved highly specialized morphological structures to facilitate nectar feeding. As a typical pollinator, the honey bee has specialized mouth parts comprised of a pair of galeae, a pair of labial palpi, and a glossa, to feed on the nectar by the feeding modes of lapping or sucking. To extensively elucidate the mechanism of a bee’s feeding, we should combine the investigations from glossa morphology, feeding behaviour, and mathematical models. This paper reviews the interdisciplinary research on nectar feeding behaviour of honey bees ranging from morphology, dynamics, and energy-saving strategies, which may not only reveal the mechanism of nectar feeding by honey bees but inspire engineered facilities for microfluidic transport. MDPI 2021-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8465255/ /pubmed/34564203 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects12090762 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Nectar Feeding by a Honey Bee’s Hairy Tongue: Morphology, Dynamics, and Energy-Saving Strategies
title Nectar Feeding by a Honey Bee’s Hairy Tongue: Morphology, Dynamics, and Energy-Saving Strategies
title_full Nectar Feeding by a Honey Bee’s Hairy Tongue: Morphology, Dynamics, and Energy-Saving Strategies
title_fullStr Nectar Feeding by a Honey Bee’s Hairy Tongue: Morphology, Dynamics, and Energy-Saving Strategies
title_full_unstemmed Nectar Feeding by a Honey Bee’s Hairy Tongue: Morphology, Dynamics, and Energy-Saving Strategies
title_short Nectar Feeding by a Honey Bee’s Hairy Tongue: Morphology, Dynamics, and Energy-Saving Strategies
title_sort nectar feeding by a honey bee’s hairy tongue: morphology, dynamics, and energy-saving strategies
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8465255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34564203
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects12090762
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