An angry Wasp th'one in a viall had, / Th'other in hers an hony-laden Bee.
Can there be a more formall, and better ordered policie, divided into so severall charges and offices, more constantly entertained, and better maintained, than that of Bees?
Bees pollinate many of the world’s crops—a service estimated to be worth $15 billion a year in America alone.
geography bee
The cellar [...] was dug by a bee in a single day.
Particularly resistant, for example, in many parts of northern Europe was the “spinning bee”, a nocturnal gathering of women to exchange gossip, stories, refreshment and – crucially – light and heat, as they spun wool or flax, knitted or sewed.
And Kynge Arthure gaff hir a ryche bye of golde; and so she departed.
...restoring unto the world much gold richly adorning his Sword, two hundred Rubies, many hundred Imperial Coynes, three hundred golden Bees, the bones and horseshoe of his horse enterred with him...
held that a ‘Nicholaitan is an heretike, like Nicholas, who held that wiues should bee common to all alike.’