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Agriculture · Q566

Agricultural Entomology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 566

Q566

The worker bee is

A.
Drone
B.
Sterile male
C.
Sterile female
Answer
D.
None of these

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
The worker bee is Sterile female.
A worker bee is any female (eusocial) bee that lacks the full reproductive capacity of the colony's queen bee; under most circumstances, this is correlated to an increase in certain non-reproductive activities relative to a queen.
Honey bee workers gather pollen into the pollen baskets on their back legs and carry it back to the hive where it is used as food for the developing brood. Pollen carried on their bodies may be carried to another flower where a small portion can rub off onto the pistil, resulting in cross-pollination.