How many muscles?

[bingevader]

School children and their thirst for knowledge.
Not had this one before, so I said I'd look it up!
Not had much luck on a quick search of the internet.
Wondered if any of you wonderful people knew how many muscles a honey bee has (roughly!?)?
Cheers.

 

[Hivemaker.]

http://jcs.biologists.org/content/joces/s2-71/283/395.full.pdf

 

[bingevader]

Thanks, I'd found that one too!
However, there are no actual figures.
Nevertheless, I've counted them up as best as possible.
I've not counted branching muscles separately and got a bit lost on the abdomen.
I've doubled the figure as the paper says all muscles are in pairs.
I've come up with a figure of over 380 which will do for school.
If anyone else wants a go or has a definitive figure I'd be very pleased to hear it.