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. my son asked me this question this morning over breakfast, and to the best of our research, bees apparently have some sort of respritoty muscle which controls breathing and circulation. They do have an aorta, so there is such a thing as bee blood, but no heart to pump it through.
Additional informationActually bees do have a heart. We humans and other vertebrate animals have a closed circulatory system where blood is pumped through arteries to capillaries then via veins back to the heart, and blood anywhere else in the body is bad news. On the other hand insects, including bees, have an open circulatory system where the blood (for insects more properly called haemolymph) fills all of the body spaces and is not confined to blood vessels.The heart is an elongated organ lying just under the roof of the abdomen. It has muscular walls and is pierced by five pairs of openings with one-way valves which allow blood to enter the heart when it dilates. These valves close when the heart contracts and the blood is forced forwards into the aorta which passes through the thorax and into the head where its open end lies just below the brain. There is a pulsating vesicle at the base of each antenna, forcing the blood to circulate through them. These are the only blood vessels in the bee.
From the head, the blood passes back through the thorax, nourishing the flight muscles, then into the abdominal cavity where more nourishment is picked up from the digestive system before it is drawn into the heart again.
Insect blood is different from ours. It is a pale straw colour, not red, because there is no haemaglobin. This is because it is not used to carry oxygen to the tissues, that is the job of the tracheal system of respiration.
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The heart rate of a bee during hibernating?
Honey bees don't actually hibernate. They form a winter cluster where they huddle around the queen and cycle so that the queen stays warm and survives. On average, the bee's cardiac muscle beats about 1260 times per minute.
What is the verb for bee?
The feminine of a bee is a worker bee. A male bee is a drone. All hives have one queen bee in charge.
Is a honey bee or bumble bee larger?
Bumble bee.
Is a bee a mollusk?
no a bee isn't a mollusk.
Is a baby bee called a beeling?
A baby bee is a bee larva.
How many hearts in honey bee?
A bee has one heart.
How many heart does a honey bee have?
one
To be a boy at heart?
you will bee a boy wen you see it
Did al green sing 'how do you mend a broken heart' before the bee gees?
No, Al Green's version is a cover of the Bee Gee's original.
Who is fanny in the bee gees song be gentle with your heart?
Barry,s girlfriend
Who is the original singer of the song its only words'?
The Bee Gees, if you mean the song that goes "It's only words, and words are all I have, to take your heart away"
What was the song of the week July 30 1971?
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart by The Bee Gees
Who sang How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?
The song was written by Barry and Robin Gibb (of the Bee Gees) in August 1970. It was a big hit for the Bee Gees. It was later released by Al Green in his January 31, 1972 album,"Let's stay Together".
What has the author Sally Bee written?
Sally Bee has written: 'The secret ingredient' -- subject(s): Heart, Diseases, Recipes, Nutritional aspects, Low-fat diet, Diet therapy, Low-calorie diet, Cooking (Natural foods), Prevention, Heart diseases
What poetic elements are used in Dickinson's If I cant stop one heart from breaking?
In "If I can't stop one heart from breaking" by Emily Dickinson, poetic devices used include imagery ("soft words and even", "sky of May"), metaphor ("murmur of a bee"), symbolism (heart breaking representing emotional pain), and personification (heart and bee are given human qualities).
How do you say broken heart in Russian?
разбитое сердце Pronounced raz-BEE-toye SER-tse
Where can one listen to Heart of Glass by Blondie?
There are many places where on can listen to the song called Heart of Glass by Blondie. One can listen to the song Heart of Glass by Blondie at popular on the web sources such as Bee MP3 and iTunes.
