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What are the main duties of a worker bee ?

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Each worker has to perform different types of work in her life time. During the fist half of her life, she becomes a nurse bee attending to indoor duties such as secretion of royal jelly, prepares bee-bread to feed the larvae, feeds the queen, takes care of the queen and drones, secretes bees wax, builds combs, cleans and fans the bee hive. Then she becomes a soldier and guards the bee hive. In the second half of her life lasting for three weeks, she searches adn gathers the pollen, nectar, propolis and water.
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