What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
Bee Quotes
A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay but a swarm in July is not worth a fly.
As busy as a bee.
Bees that have honey in their nostrils have stings in their tails.
All the honey a bee gathers during its lifetime doesn’t sweeten its sting.
Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can’t buzz any slower.
According to classical aerodynamics, it is impossible for a bumblebee to fly.
Perhaps, too, it’s as well that Denis hasn’t been permitted to flower into a little Nero, and that Ivor remains only potentially a Caligula. Yes, it’s better so, no doubt. But it would have been more amusing, as a spectacle, if they had had the chance to develop, untrammelled, the full horror of their potentialities. […]
Honeyed words like bees, Gilded and sticky, with a little sting.
The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness.
