Question

Worker bees are ______.

• A. fertile males
• B. sterile males
• C. fertile females
• D. sterile females

Answer 1

The correct option is D sterile females

In a colony, there are 10,000 to 60,000 bees. But all of them do not collect nectar. There is a strict division of labour.
- The queen bees are fertile females which lay thousands of eggs.
- The drone bees are fertile males and their job is only to help in fertilizing the eggs laid by the queen.
- Worker bees are sterile females who do the actual work of collecting nectar.