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  • Many young worker honey bees in a hive.
    Rights: The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato Published 6 June 2012, Updated 15 July 2019 Size: 1.7 MB Referencing Hub media

    Young worker honey bees do various jobs in the hive. When they are older, they go out and collect nectar1 and pollen2 – food for other bees and larvae3.

    1. nectar: A sugary liquid found in many flowers, made and stored in a nectary. Used to attract animals, which eat it and accidentally collect or deposit pollen at the same time.
    2. pollen: Dust-like grains that contain male sex cells (gametes) of flowering plants (angiosperms) and cone plants (gymnosperms). Pollen is made on the anthers of flowering plants.
    3. larva: An immature form that some animals (such as insects, crustaceans and amphibians) pass through before metamorphosing into an adult form.
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    2. A sugary liquid found in many flowers, made and stored in a nectary. Used to attract animals, which eat it and accidentally collect or deposit pollen at the same time.

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    4. Dust-like grains that contain male sex cells (gametes) of flowering plants (angiosperms) and cone plants (gymnosperms). Pollen is made on the anthers of flowering plants.

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    6. An immature form that some animals (such as insects, crustaceans and amphibians) pass through before metamorphosing into an adult form.