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Entomology
The study of insects.
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Pollen
Biology; Entomology
The mass of microspores or male fertilizing elements of flowering plants.
Pollen Basket
Biology; Entomology
The pollen-carrying region on the hind leg, of a bee: also known as the corbicula.
Pollinate
Biology; Entomology
To transfer pollen grains from a stamen to a stigma or ovule of a plant.
Postscutellum
Biology; Entomology
A small division of the mesonotum just behind the scutellum: usually very small or absent, but well developed in certain flies.
Post-vertical Bristles
Biology; Entomology
A pair of bristles - divergent, parallel, or crossing - on the back of the head of various flies, some way behind the ocelli.
Pre-apical
Biology; Entomology
Arising just before the tip: many flies. for example, have pre-apical bristles just before the tip of the tibia.
