Michael Palmer wrote:

> When trying to describe, to my assistant, where the string was
> attached...I
> could only come up with "waist." Looking in my bee books...even though
> they
> have labeled drawings of bee anatomy, neither named the location. What is
> the name of the connection between the thorax, and the abdomen?
> Mike
>
The first abdominal segment is the propodeum.  I can't find a better
description of the "waist".
Patrick

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