• Buddhe Gajanan
• Masram Suresh
• Shinkhede Milind
• Katgaye Anita

The honey bee (Apis cerana indica F.) is common bee in India. The morphology of honey bee extensively studied, but less attention has been given ultramicroscopic studies on the alimentary canal i.e. crop and midgut. The aim of the current study was to describe the ultrastructure study of crop and midgut of the honey bee Apis cerana indica. The crop consist of nucleus of epithelial cell is prominent. Epicuticle is well defined. Between epicuticle and outfolded pleats there is a space which is continuous upto the crop. Nuclei are spherical and present in the cytosole. Interstitial out folded pleats traced to stored nectar in the lumen. Midgut consist digestive columnar epithelial cells are seen with oval nucleus, surrounded by endoplasmic reticulum and compactly arranged Golgi body into the cytoplasm. Membranous vesicles are loosely arranged. Position of mitochondria is on apical side of the cell. Columnar cell showed extensively large vacuole with apical cytoplasm. The nucleus was prominent with dense chromatin material. Rough endoplasmic reticulum were seen along the side of nuclear surface. Digestive vacuoles were seen in cytoplasm along with the nucleus. Some regions were also seen with free ribosome, short fragments of rough endoplasmic reticulum. The regenerative cells were cuboidal with large number of vacuoles. Lumen were found with packed densely dead material. The regenerative cells live close to the basal membrane of epithelium and have the function of regeneration. Regenerative cells produce mitotically and differentiation takes place. Usually they are solitary.

ULTRA STRUCTURAL STUDY OF CROP AND MIDGUT IN APIS CERANA INDICA F.(HYMENOPTERA: APIDAE )

"ULTRA STRUCTURAL STUDY OF CROP AND MIDGUT IN APIS CERANA INDICA F.(HYMENOPTERA: APIDAE )", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no.10-16, December-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFI06003.pdf

"ULTRA STRUCTURAL STUDY OF CROP AND MIDGUT IN APIS CERANA INDICA F.(HYMENOPTERA: APIDAE )", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no. pp10-16, December-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFI06003.pdf