When a new worker bee hatches from her cell, she gets a long drink of honey then, while her wings are drying, she will clean her cell and get it ready for another egg. Then she will join all the other new bees and older housekeepers and clean the hive. They will clean impurities off the walls and floor. They will make sure that the walls have no holes of open splits that let drafts in. If they find an opening, they take some of the sap from a field bee and make propolis, what is known as bee glue, and close up the hole. If there is something too big to remove (animal, bug, twig) from the hive, then the housekeepers will entomb the object with propolis. It will even keep germs enclosed so the hive is protected that way also.

Soon she will upgrade to a nurse bee.