Illustration of the honey bee's digestive tract with the three different gut compartments identified. Food passes through the oesophagus into the crop, undergoes digestion in the midgut and then moves to the ileum and rectum (https://americanbeejournal.com/whos-got-guts-the-microbes-living-in-bees)

Illustration of the honey bee's digestive tract with the three different gut compartments identified. Food passes through the oesophagus into the crop, undergoes digestion in the midgut and then moves to the ileum and rectum (https://americanbeejournal.com/whos-got-guts-the-microbes-living-in-bees)

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... digestive tract of the honey bee is divided into three different compartments: foregut, midgut and hindgut. The foregut contains the crop, the midgut is the middle part of the tract and the hindgut includes the ileum and rectum (Figure 1). Different areas of the digestive system provide different environments for the bacterial symbionts, which have different roles in essential biological activities (e.g. ...

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