worker bee

worker bee (plural worker bees)

1. A sterile bee whose speciality 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.