> HI
> Could any one helpe me, i would like to knew the blood cell types of
> the hony bees { Apis mlefera} and the references. Pleas response to me
> directly throug may e.mail, im no'tsubscribed in the bee-l.
>                               Thankes in advance.
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  Salaam alikum habibi in Egypt?
  Apis mellifera has
  no red blood cells.
  The blood, or hymolymph,
  fills the body cavity
  in an "open" circulation
  system.
 
  For full properties of
  honeybee hymolymph
  (color, specific gravity,
  ph (acidity),  chief simple
  sugar, chief carbohydrate,
  buffers, molecular concentration,
  other organic metabolites, and
  plasmatocytes, see
 
  "The Hive & the Honeybee,"
  (1992, 1324 pages), edited
  by Joe Graham, page 175.
 
  I will email those specifications
  if U so desire.
 
  Definition of "hymolymph": the
circulatory fluid of various in-
vertebrate animals that is func-
tionally comparable to the blood
and lymph of vertebrates.
 
  Ma salaam.
  Ma salaam.
 
  Jack the B-man
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