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A worker bee is any female bee that lacks the reproductive capacity of the colony's queen bee and carries out the majority of tasks needed for the functioning of the hive. While worker bees are present in all eusocial bee species, the term is rarely used (outside of scientific literature) for bees other than honey bees , particularly the ...
Laying worker bee honeycomb. See broad pattern and drone brood in worker cells (caps protruding). This honeycomb is taken from the dying family without the queen. A laying worker bee is a worker bee that lays unfertilized eggs, usually in the absence of a queen bee.
A commercial beekeeper at work Western honey bee on a honeycomb. Humans have kept honey bee colonies, commonly in hives, for millennia. [106] Depictions of humans collecting honey from wild bees date to 15,000 years ago; efforts to domesticate them are shown in Egyptian art around 4,500 years ago. [107] Simple hives and smoke were used. [108] [109]
Bees (Family: Apidae) Wasps (Family: Vespidae) ; Name Western honey bee Bumblebee Paper wasp Yellowjacket Bald-faced hornet European hornet Asian hornet; Image Colors Amber to brown translucent alternating with black stripes.
A working animal is an animal, usually domesticated, that is kept by humans and trained to perform tasks instead of being slaughtered to harvest animal products.
A quilting bee is a form of communal work. Communal work is a gathering for mutually accomplishing a task or for communal fundraising. Communal work provided manual labour to others, especially for major projects such as barn raising, "bees" of various kinds (see § Bee below), log rolling, and subbotniks. Different words have been used to ...
The western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the 7–12 species of honey bees worldwide. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The genus name Apis is Latin for 'bee', and mellifera is the Latin for 'honey-bearing' or 'honey-carrying', referring to the species' production of honey.
Worker policing is found in honey bees and other hymenopterans including some species of bumblebees, ants and wasps.. Worker policing is a behavior seen in colonies of social hymenopterans (ants, bees, and wasps) whereby worker females eat or remove eggs that have been laid by other workers rather than those laid by a queen.