a tuft of hairs on the abdomen or hind legs of bees, used for collecting pollen
Word origin
C19: from Latin, used only in pl scopae twigs, brush
Examples of 'scopae' in a sentence
scopae
For the pollen preparates, the scopae of 34 females were used.
Yasemin Güler, Kadriye Sorkun 2010, 'Analysis of Pollen Collected by Andrena flavipes Panzer (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae)in Sweet Cherry Orchards, Afyonkarahisar Province of Turkey', Psyche: A Journal of Entomologyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/160789. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Metathoracic scopae that underwent this procedure showed traces of pollen in varying amounts when observed under the microscope.
Marta Caccavari, Gabriela Cilla 2010, 'Removal new alternative to chemical and mechanical removal for the study of pollencarried on the wild bee scopae Remoción química como nueva alternativa a la remociónmecánica para el estudio del polen transportado en las escopas de abejas silvestres',Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturaleshttp://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1853-04002010000200008. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)