working bee
Britishnoun
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There is nothing feminine about a working bee but its anatomy.
From Time Magazine Archive
One ingenious fellow proposed crossing the working bee with the firefly, so it could work all night long by its own lantern.
From A Truthful Woman in Southern California by Sanborn, Kate
They swarmed, not to be industrious like the working bee, but to consume like the drone, and to do mischief like the wasp.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
The working bee does otherwise: it settles down upon each flower just as long as is necessary for it to suck in enough sweetness to make its one honeycomb.
From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Camus, Jean Pierre
The working bee nymph spins its cocoon in thirty-six hours.
From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine)
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