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Kōrero: Beekeeping

Queen surrounded by workers

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Queen surrounded by workers

The larger and longer queen bee is the centre of the workers’ attention. Their main role is to feed her so she can keep producing eggs and replenish the hive population.

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Natural Sciences Image Library of New Zealand

Reference: Be260Smn.tif

by Peter E. Smith

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Allan Gillingham, Beekeeping – The bee colony, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15751/queen-surrounded-by-workers (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Allan Gillingham, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.