worker bee

English

Noun

worker bee (plural worker bees)

1. A sterile bee whose specialty is to support the hive, especially by collecting pollen.
   • 1991, Gene Stratton-Porter, The Keeper of the Bees, reprint edition, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 197:

     Then, a worker bee has got six thousand eyes of each side of its head so it can see the flowers that it wants to get the pollen and the nectar from.

Translations

sterile bee

• Bulgarian: пчела-работничка f (pčela-rabotnička)
• Catalan: abella obrera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工蜂 (zh) (gōngfēng)

• Danish: arbejdsbi c, arbejderbi c
• Dutch: werkster (nl) f, werkbij (nl) f
• Esperanto: laborabelo
• Finnish: työläinen (fi), työmehiläinen (fi)
• French: abeille ouvrière f, ouvrière (fr) f
• German: Arbeiterin (de) f
• Irish: beach oibre f
• Italian: ape operaia f
• Japanese: 働きバチ (hatarakibachi), 働き蜂 (ja) (はたらきばち, hatarakibachi)
• Maori: pī kaimahi
• Polish: robotnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: abelha-operária f
• Romanian: albină lucrătoare f
• Russian: рабо́чая пчела́ f (rabóčaja pčelá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра́дилица f

  Roman: rádilica (sh) f

• Spanish: abeja obrera f
• Turkish: işçi arı (tr)