Bumblebee Workers Doing Chores (VIDEO)

University of Arizona

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This video clip (no audio) shows bumblebees on larval and pupal cells; one bee is cleaning the pupal cell of its wax, exposing some of the silk (the browner patches) that makes up its cocoon.

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Keith Brust/UA

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