Bees infected by apocephalus borealis have been dubbed as " zombie bees ," or " zombees ".

Bees infected with this virus during their development will often have visibly deformed wings.

Bees are one of the few insects frequently used on advertisements, being used to illustrate honey and foods made with honey ( such as Honey Nut Cheerios ).

Dissatisfied with the King Bees and their repertoire of Howlin ' Wolf and Willie Dixon blues numbers, Bowie quit the band less than a month later to join the Manish Boys, another blues outfit, who incorporated folk and soul — " I used to dream of being their Mick Jagger ", Bowie was to recall.

The Dolphins ' main strength was their defense, nicknamed the " Killer Bees " because 6 of their 11 starters had last names that began with the letter " B ".

He signed with the Brewers and began his professional career in Iowa, playing for the Class A Burlington Bees of the Midwest League.

The PCL has had a long tradition on the West Coast, with teams with evocative names such as the Hollywood Stars, Los Angeles Angels, Mission Reds ( representing San Francisco's Mission District ), Oakland Oaks, Portland Beavers, Sacramento Solons, Salt Lake Bees, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Seals, Seattle Rainiers, Spokane Indians, Vernon Tigers ( later the Tacoma Tigers ), Vancouver Canadians, and the Hawaii Islanders.

The best known of these is the Bee Gees parody The Hee Bee Gee Bees, with their song " Meaningless Songs ( In Very High Voices )", which became a moderate hit.

The original broadcasts took place on BBC Radio 4 between 1980 and 1988 ( as detailed in the table below ), with one programme ( The Hee Bee Gee Bees Special ) from the same team premiering on BBC Radio 2.

The Bees started the 2008 season with a 21-1 record, the best start in minor league history, according to MinorLeagueBaseball. com.

Adenhart had spent most of the 2008 season with the Salt Lake Bees, finishing with a 9-13 record and 5. 76 ERA in 26 appearances.

Pope co-wrote with Richard Curtis the Hee Bee Gee Bees ' single " Meaningless Songs " ( B-side " Posing in the Moonlight ") released in 1980 to parody the style of a series of Bee Gees disco hits.

Nixon was a founding member of the theatrical troupe The Drama Dept., which included Sarah Jessica Parker, Dylan Baker, John Cameron Mitchell and Billy Crudup among its actors, appearing in the group's productions of Kingdom on Earth ( 1996 ), June Moon and As Bees in Honey Drown ( both 1997 ), Hope is the Thing with Feathers ( 1998 ), and The Country Club ( 1999 ).

* Blag Dahlia's most recent side project is pop / rock band Candy Now !, which he formed with Angelina Moysov of Persephone's Bees.

Internal clock: Bees have an internal clock with three different synchronization or timekeeping mechanisms.

They tend to be free to play, with costs absorbed either through supporting products ( e. g. collectible puzzle cards fund Perplex City ) or through promotional relationships with existing products ( for example, I Love Bees was a promotion for Halo 2, and the Lost Experience and Find 815 promoted the television show Lost ).

Carlos resumed his solo career, while Simpson formed a new line-up of Black Uhuru with Andrew Bees and Jennifer Connally.

In 2011 with new vital blood the legendary group featuring Derrick " Duckie " Simpson, Andrew Bees, Kaye Starr, are touring the US first time since 2002 with successful shows and festivals Worldwide.

Musical parodies were by Philip Pope ( former member of Who Dares Wins and The Hee Bee Gee Bees ) and later Steve Brown ( who appeared as bandleader Glen Ponder in Knowing Me, Knowing You ... with Alan Partridge.

Powell's charm and spunk made her stand out in her follow-up vehicle Three Daring Daughters, originally titled The Birds and the Bees, in which she co-starred with Jeanette MacDonald, who took the young performer under her wing.

In 1880 William Brophy completed a unique double by owning the winner of both the Irish Derby with King of the Bees

Bees may be unable to fly (" crawling ") due to disjointed wings.

Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax.

Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila.

Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients.

Bees have a long proboscis ( a complex " tongue ") that enables them to obtain the nectar from flowers.

Bees all have two pairs of wings, the hind pair being the smaller of the two ; in a very few species, one sex or caste has relatively short wings that make flight difficult or impossible, but none are wingless.

Bees are the favorite meal of Merops apiaster, the bee-eater bird.

Bees play an important role in pollinating flowering plants, and are the major type of pollinator in ecosystems that contain flowering plants.

Bees either focus on gathering nectar or on gathering pollen depending on demand, especially in social species.

Bees gathering nectar may accomplish pollination, but bees that are deliberately gathering pollen are more efficient pollinators.

Bees figure prominently in mythology and folklore and have been used by political theorists as a model for human society.

Bees of the World.

The Bees of the World, second edition.

Frustrated by his band-mates ' limited aspirations, Bowie left the Konrads and joined another band, the King Bees.

The singer's debut single, " Liza Jane ", credited to Davie Jones and the King Bees, had no commercial success.

:::" Bees have fur, but they're no good for petting.

* Bernard de Mandeville ( English, 1670 – 1733 ), author of The Fable of the Bees.

In the 2002 novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the narrator and protagonist Lily describes a punishment her abusive father routinely inflicted on her: kneeling on grits.

In August 1859, a long cable was commissioned from Glass, Elliot and Company of Greenwich and laid from Cranstal ( north of Ramsey ) to St Bees in Cumbria using the chartered cable ship Resolute.

Due to increasing usage in the years following nationalisation, further cables between Port Cornaa and St Bees were laid in 1875 and 1885.

Albert also appeared as a special guest on The Simpsons ' Season 20 episode The Burns and the Bees in 2008.

Bees and other nectar-feeding insects visit the flowers.

Entering Super Bowl XVII, the Dolphins were favored to win the game, primarily because of their " Killer Bees " defense, which had recorded 12 interceptions in their 3 playoffs games, including 5 each in the final two.