The anatomy of bees

Bees as all other insects have no inner skeleton. Their’s is on the outside in the shape of a hard outer shell. You hear the shell crunch when (by mistake of course) you crush an insect under foot. The muscles are attached to the inside of the shell as are the organs. The body of the bee is divided in three parts: the head, the thorax and the abdomen. On the back of the hind leg is the device for gathering pollen. On back scales are the spiracles, the openings for breathing. The frist one is a blind but the next two are the major breathing tubes and the rest play a minor role. The bees don’t have a nose. Compound means that the eye is build up out of many small visual units. Note also the nifty antenna cleaner on the foreleg. Nature has provided the bee with many handy gadgets. The drawing is mine made after examples I found on the internet.