Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.

Just plain old black dirt was also used as a pack to relieve wasp or bee stings.

In ancient Egypt, the bee was seen to symbolize the lands of Lower Egypt, with the Pharaoh being referred to as " He of Sedge and Bee " ( the sedge representing Upper Egypt ).

The most sophisticated investigation of this kind was the study by Karl von Frisch of the so-called " dance language " related to bee communication.

* She was as busy as a bee.

Lewis Carroll decided to suppress a scene involving what was described as " a wasp in a wig " ( possibly a play on the commonplace expression " bee in the bonnet ").

This bee provided Mexico with a 300-year-long monopoly on vanilla production, from the time it was first discovered by Europeans and the French first transplanted the vines to their overseas colonies, until a substitute was found for them.

The erotic dance of the bee performed by a woman known as Kuchuk Hanem, was witnessed and described by the French novelist Gustave Flaubert.

* Apis dorsata laboriosa, the Himalayan honey bee, was initially described as a distinct species.

The boy often sung softly ; Thrasher later learned that the boy was trying to say the word " bee " using different pitches and tones.

The tops were prepared in advance, and a " quilting bee " was arranged, during which the actual quilting was completed by multiple people.

A possibly derived symbol of Frankish royalty was the bee, as found in the burial of Childric I.

Brother Adam ( born Karl Kehrle in 1898 in Germany, died in 1996 ) was put in charge of the Abbey's beekeeping in 1919, and began extensive breeding work creating the honeybee known as the Buckfast bee.

John Harbison was a major contributor to the theory of bee culture with his development of new tools and methods that characterized the remarkable advances made in nineteenth century apicultural science.

John Harbison was worthy of the title bestowed upon him by members of the bee industry -" King of the Beekeepers.

The antiquary was satirised in John Earle's Micro-cosmographie of 1628 (" Hee is one that hath that unnaturall disease to bee enamour'd of old age, and wrinkles, and loves all things ( as Dutchmen doe Cheese ) the better for being mouldy and worme-eaten "), in Jean-Siméon Chardin's painting " Le Singe Antiquaire " ( c. 1726 ), in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Antiquary ( 1816 ), in the caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson, and in many other places.

In the late nineteenth century, a genteel convention was contrived that the town's name derived from bee.

Kerr was attempting to breed a strain of bees that would produce more honey and be better adapted to tropical conditions ( i. e., more productive ) than the European subspecies of honey bee used in South America and southern North America.

In 2012 it was reported by state officials that a colony was found for the first time in a bee keepers colony in Monroe County, eastern Tennessee.

In addition, there was formerly no tradition of beekeeping, only bee robbing.

It was here that Swammerdam revealed that the " king " bee has ovaries.

The bee is the heraldic emblem too of the Barberini.

The honey bee was a prominent political emblem for both the First and Second Empires, representing the Bonapartist ideal of devoted service, self-sacrifice and social loyalty.

A cartoon-style bee is used in the modern emblem of the municipality.

The bee was an emblem of Potnia, the Minoan-Mycenaean " Mistress ", also referred to as " The Pure Mother Bee ".

* A spelling bee features as pioneer family entertainment in Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, in which Pa ' spells down ' the whole town.

* Close-up photos of a carpenter bee – taken near the town of Chavarillo, Veracruz, Mexico

Annual town fairs generally included a quilting bee, to award excellence in quilting.

Copied from the town badge is a rebus of a bee and an arrow, representing the club's name (" Bee-arrow ").

She and Tom are co-winners of the town spelling bee.

After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said: `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly.

a marvelous arrangement, for it provides exactly what the bee queens need to make their beebread, a combination of honey and pollen with which the young of all species are fed.

Some members of the bee family have become idlers, social parasites that live at the expense of their hardworking relatives.

One of my favorites is A. armata, a species very common in England, where it is sometimes referred to as the lawn bee.

Although Andrena is gregarious, so that we may find hundreds and hundreds of burrows together, we must still call it a solitary bee.

Often the burrows are only an inch or two apart, and the bee cities cover several acres.

The life history of the alkali bee is similar to that of Andrena, but the first activity of the adults does not take place until summer, and the individuals hibernate in the prepupal stage.

The name `` alkali bee '' indicates that one has to look for them in rather inhospitable places.

W. H. Roscher thinks that both nectar and ambrosia were kinds of honey, in which case their power of conferring immortality would be due to the supposed healing and cleansing powers of honey, and because fermented honey ( mead ) preceded wine as an entheogen in the Aegean world ; on some Minoan seals, goddesses were represented with bee faces ( compare Merope and Melissa ).

The smallest bee is Trigona minima, a stingless bee whose workers are about 2. 1 mm ( 5 / 64 ") long.

The largest bee in the world is Megachile pluto, a leafcutter bee whose females can attain a length of 39 mm ( 1. 5 ").

Members of the family Halictidae, or sweat bees, are the most common type of bee in the Northern Hemisphere, though they are small and often mistaken for wasps or flies.

The best-known bee species is the European honey bee, which, as its name suggests, produces honey, as do a few other types of bee.

It is estimated that one third of the human food supply depends on insect pollination, most of which is accomplished by bees, especially the domesticated European honey bee.

Monoculture and the massive decline of many bee species ( both wild and domesticated ) have increasingly caused honey bee keepers to become migratory so that bees can be concentrated in seasonally varying high-demand areas of pollination.