Species
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyDrosophilidae
*Adult bee louse (Braula): -body structure: rounded, six legged, comb like feet (for holding onto bee hairs), covered in setae, wingless (aptera), eyeless -coloration: reddish brown -size: 1.5 millimeters in length and 0.75 millimeters in width -home: live “clinged” on bees (with help from bristle/comb like feet), usually one braula per bee and there may be more than one on queen bees -source of food: Braula feed on honey which is sucked from a bee’s mouth during regurgitation of the honey into comb cells, with the help of the Braulid’s own sucking mouth organ
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Braula
- Image
- The bee louse Braula coeca attached to the head region of its host, the honeybee Apis mellifera scutellata.jpg
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- P105
- species
- P1542
- Q10990243
- P9566
- diurnality
- P14254
- Vulnerable
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