ARS Photo Library
Image Number K11141-1
Artificial insemination of a queen. Semen is about to be injected into the oviducts
of a queen bee. Thereafter the sperm cells migrate to the sperm storage pouch
of the queen. A queen gradually releases sperm from this pouch to fertilize the
eggs she lays during her lifetime.
Photo by Stephen Ausmus.
640 pixels wide: (k11141-1.jpg)
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