“The honeybee tongue, foraging liquid food in nature, has a unique segmented surface covered with dense hairs. Since honeybees are capable of using their tongue to adapt to possibly the broadest range of feeding environments to exploit every possible source of liquids, the surface properties of the tongue, especially the covering hairs, would likely represent an evolutionary optimization. A new study by researchers from China and Germany shows that honeybee tongue hairs are stiff and hydrophobic, the latter of which is highly unexpected as the structure is designed for liquid capturing.”
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