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Stings, wings and hairy eyes: honeybee close-ups

By Shanta Barley

17 June 2010

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A sting in the tail

(Image: Rose-Lynn Fisher)

Gallery: Stings, wings and hairy eyes: honeybee close-ups

Do bees really have knees? According to artist Rose-Lynn Fisher’s new book BEE, they do. Using a scanning electron microscope, Fisher has taken 60 photographs of bee anatomy – at magnifications of up to 5000 times.

Here, in her own words and pictures, Fisher takes us on an up-close tour of “the endless structures and forms that make a little bee”.

Gallery: Stings, wings and hairy eyes: honeybee close-ups

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