Thursday Word: Scopa

[bethctg]

scopa (noun)
ˈskōpə

• a group or arrangement of short stiff hairs on the body surface of an insect that usually functions like a brush in collecting something (as pollen)

etymology: New Latin, from Latin, broom

I gift you with a sunflower bee whose scopa is covered in pollen:


source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMXa9F8rO9D/

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Aw, nice! Bees! 🐝🍯🌻

[full_metal_ox]

I love your precision of both anatomical terminology and the exact species of bee involved.

(Have you ever read the original book version of Howl’s Moving Castle? Mrs. Annabel Fairfax, a minor character who didn’t make it into the movie, and who’d clearly purveyed her special interest into a whole system of magic, was a Honey Witch.)