In honeybee workers, which pair of legs is modified to form a pollen basket or brush?

✅ Explanation: In honeybee workers, the hind legs are modified to form a pollen basket or corbicula, which is used for collecting and transporting pollen. This structure consists of a flattened area surrounded by stiff, curved hairs that help the bee gather and pack pollen. The pollen basket is a key adaptation for pollen transport from flowers back to the hive.

📌Other Options Explanations:
Forelegs: Used for cleaning antennae and other body parts.
Middle legs: Used for walking and grooming.
(a) Forelegs: The forelegs of honeybees are not modified for pollen collection. They are used primarily for cleaning and grooming.
(b) Middle legs: Like the forelegs, the middle legs are not specialized for pollen collection, although they do play a role in grooming and other tasks.
 
🔑 Key Points:
A honey bee is a flying insect well known for its ability to produce honey by collecting nectar from flowers. Hence the name honey bee.
Honeybees are social insects that live together in a hive known as Colony to make and store honey.
A honey bee colony typically consists of three kinds of adult bees: worker bees, drones, and a queen.
Honeybees are attracted to flowers.  
Honey bees live in a beehive, which is commonly used to describe the nest of any bee colony.
Honeybees lay their eggs from October to December.
Honey bees like to feed on the sugar syrup.

• Every bee colony consists of three types of bees:
Queen Bee: 
Every beehive has one Queen Bee that lays eggs.
Male Bee: 
There are only a few males in the hive.
The male bees have no special role as workers. 
Worker Bee: 
Most of the bees in the hive are worker bees.
These bees work all day. They make the hive and also look after the baby bees. 
They fly around flowers in search of nectar. The worker bees are very important for the hive. 
Without worker-bees, there would be neither hive nor any nectar collection.
They are sterile female bees. ​
When one bee finds flowers with nectar, it does a special kind of dance by which the other bees can know where the nectar is. 
Honey bees play a very important role in the pollination of flowers like the litchi, coffee, and cocoa flower.

🛑 Additional Information::

• About Beekeeping:
Beekeeping is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in man-made hives, by humans. 
A beekeeper keeps bees in order to collect their honey and other products that the hive produces.
The purpose of beekeeping includes products like beeswax, honey, bee pollen, and royal jelly.
Beekeeping is also done for pollination of crops, or to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers.
A location where bees are kept is called an apiary or "bee yard".
An apiarist is a fancy word for a beekeeper.