Bee Communication Quotes

O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.

When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

Every bees hony is sweet.

Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney?

I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there are no wasps, there are no hornets here. If some wanton bee chance to buzz about thine ears, stand thy ground and hold thy hands-there's none will sting thee, if thou strike not first. If any do, she hath honey in her bag will cure thee too.

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

It takes a bee to get the honey out

Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

You never can tell with bees.

No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.