Question: what is the difference between nurse bees and forager bees?
Answer: In honeybees, the division of labor relates to worker age (Winston, 1987). Young worker bees (3–14 days of age) typically tend ('nurse') brood inside the dark and thermoregulated hive. Forager worker bees are typically older than 3 weeks of age and perform multiple foraging flights on a single day (Seeley, 1982).