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worker

a sterile female member of a colony of bees, ants, or wasps that forages for food, cares for the larvae, etc.

worker [′wər·kər]

(invertebrate zoology)

One of the neuter, usually sterile individuals making up a caste of social insects, such as ants, termites, or bees, which labor for the colony.

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