Amongst honey bees, the workers are:

The correct option is Female.

To understand why worker honey bees are female, we can examine the social structure and reproductive biology of a honey bee colony:
1. Colony Castes: A typical honey bee hive contains three types of bees: a single queen, thousands of worker bees, and a few hundred drones.
2. Sex Determination: Honey bees use a haplodiploid sex-determination system. In this system:
- Fertilized eggs receive chromosomes from both the queen and a drone, making them diploid (having two sets of chromosomes). All diploid individuals develop into females.
- Unfertilized eggs receive chromosomes only from the queen, making them haploid (having one set of chromosomes). All haploid individuals develop into males (drones).
3. Role of Workers: Since worker bees develop from fertilized eggs, they are genetically female. However, unlike the queen, who is a fully developed and fertile female, worker bees are sterile females that perform all the essential maintenance tasks of the hive, such as foraging, cleaning, nursing the brood, and defending the colony.