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    Default Senior scietific exams.

    Anyone interested in discussing senior scientific exam questions and queries. I wont bore you if your not interested.

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    Yes.
    It's along winter, grey cells need some exercise.

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    Describe the Pheromone glands of the honey bee? that was the question but all answers I see mention the Mandibular glands, and Salivary glands are they technically pheromone glands as they don't have ducts to the external skeleton.

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    Both glands have ducts outwards, but only the mandibular gland produces pheremones (but it's more complicated than that, depending on whether she is a queen or a worker, and the age of the worker). The pheremone gland you're probably most familiar with and have seen a lot in action is the Nasanov gland at the tip of the worker's abdomen - but there are quite a few more.

    I highly recommend Celia Davis, 'The Honey Bee Inside Out'. That book has helped me enormously to understand the working of bees a bit better - but I have a lot more to learn.
    Kitta

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    I Have listed the following Mandibular Gland, Dufor Gland (Alkaline Gland), Arnhart Gland (Footprint or Trail Gland) Nasanov gland, Renner Baumann Gland (Tegrite Gland) Koschevnikos Gland, and Wax Glands, I also added Mandibular glands. When answering the question.

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    Wax glands produce wax - not pheremones.
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