Bee cell from the Holocene palaeosols of southwest Portugal. (IMAGE)

Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon

Bee cell from the Holocene palaeosols of southwest Portugal.

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X-ray micro-computed tomography views of a male Eucera bee (ventral) inside a sealed cocoon. View obtained in the ICTP ElettramicroCT, Trieste's Elettra synchrotron radiation facility in Italy. The image shows the architecture of the excavated brood chamber closed by the spiral cap, containing an adult bee close to abandoning the cell.

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Federico Bernardini/ICTP.

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