A bee is a flying insect. Bee, BEE or The Bee may also refer to:

People

Bee (surname) Bee is a surname. Those bearing it include the following: * Andrew Bee (soldier) ( fl. 1860s), American soldier * Barnard E. Bee Sr. (1787–1853), Texas politician * Barnard Elliott Bee Jr., (1824–1861), American soldier * Carlos Bee (1867– ...

* Bee (given name) * B. E. E., a pen name used by E. E. Brown (), American author

Places

United States

* Bee, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Bee, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Bee, Nebraska, a village * Bee Cliff (Tennessee) *

Bee County, Texas Bee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in South Texas and its county seat is Beeville. As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,047. The Beeville, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Bee County. T ...

* Bee, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Bee, Washington, an unincorporated community

Elsewhere

* Bee, New South Wales, Australia, a parish * Bee, Piedmont, Italy, a commune

Fictional characters

Aunt Bee Aunt Bee is a fictional character from the 1960 American television sitcom ''The Andy Griffith Show''. Played by Frances Bavier, the character migrated to the spinoff ''Mayberry R.F.D.'' (1968–1971) when ''The Andy Griffith Show'' ended its run ...

, in the television series ''The Andy Griffith Show'' *

Mr. Weatherbee Waldo Weatherbee is a fictional character in the Archie Comics universe. Mr. Weatherbee is the principal of Riverdale High School, where Archie Andrews is a student. To Riverdale students and (most) staff, he is commonly called Mr. Weatherbee, du ...

, nicknamed "the Bee", the high school principal in Archie Comics * Bumblebee (''Transformers'') or Bee * Bee, in the ''

Quiz Kids ''Quiz Kids'' is a radio and TV series originally broadcast in the 1940s and 1950s. Created by Chicago public relations and advertising man Louis G. Cowan, and originally sponsored by Alka-Seltzer, the series was first broadcast on NBC from Chic ...

'' magazines * Bee, in the animated television series ''

WordWorld ''WordWorld'' (also sometimes referred to as ''Word World'') is an American children's CGI animated television series that is based on the books and the wooden puzzles of the same name. ''WordWorld'' debuted on PBS Kids and was created by Don Mo ...

'' * Bee, the titular character in ''The Babysitter'' * Bee, one of the titular characters in ''

Bee and PuppyCat ''Bee and PuppyCat'' is an American adult animated streaming television series created and written by Natasha Allegri. The series revolves around Bee (voiced by Allyn Rachel), an unemployed woman in her early twenties, who encounters a mysteri ...

Media

List of newspapers named Bee ''Bee'' is the name of the following newspapers: California The McClatchy Company *''The Sacramento Bee'', Sacramento, founded in 1857 *''The Fresno Bee'', Fresno, founded in 1922 *''The Modesto Bee'', Modesto New York ; Bee Group Newspa ...

* Bee Group Newspapers, New York *

The Babylon Bee ''The Babylon Bee'' is a Conservatism in the United States, conservative Christianity, Christian news satire website that publishes satire, satirical articles on topics including religion, politics, current events, and public figures. It has bee ...

, a satire site * ''The Bee'' (magazine), a literary magazine issued only during 1759 * ''The Bee'' (weekly), a publication of

James Anderson of Hermiston James Anderson FRSE FSAScot (1739 – 15 October 1808) was a Scottish agriculturist, journalist and economist. A member of the Edinburgh Philosophical Society, Anderson was a prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. He invented the Sc ...

started in 1791 *

The Bee (radio station) The Bee was a local radio station serving southern and eastern parts of Lancashire, England. On Friday 27 May 2016, The Bee merged with its sister Lancashire station 2BR. The station was owned and operated by UKRD and broadcast from studios at ...

, a local radio station in Lancashire, England *

Bee Broadcasting, Inc. Bee Broadcasting, Inc., also known locally as the "Bee Broadcasting Radio Network", is a regional radio broadcasting company, based in Kalispell, Montana. The stations they operate cover the entire Flathead Valley area of northwestern Montana, incl ...

, a radio broadcasting company based in Kalispell, Montana * "Bees", a

Series B A venture round is a type of funding round used for venture capital financing, by which startup companies obtain investment, generally from venture capitalists and other institutional investors. The availability of venture funding is among the ...

episode of the television series ''QI'' (2004)

Music

* ''Bee'' (EP) by Tracy Bonham * "Bee" (song), recorded by both Lena Meyer-Landrut and Jennifer Braun

Vehicles

* ''Bee'' (ship), a ship that sank off the coast of Australia in 1806 *

Daihatsu Bee The Daihatsu Bee is a three-wheeled microcar produced by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Daihatsu from 1951 until 1952. Overview Although Daihatsu had been producing motorized tricycles for carrying freight since 1930, and had also produc ...

, a Japanese three-wheeled car *

Sopwith Bee The Sopwith Bee was a small biplane built in 1916 as a personal aircraft for Harry Hawker, Sopwith's chief test pilot. History The Bee was a single-bay biplane powered by a Gnome Omega rotary engine, intended for use by Hawker as a runabout an ...

, a small biplane built in 1916 as a personal aircraft

Acronym

* Basal energy expenditure * BEE Japan or Bicycle for Everyone's Earth *

Black Economic Empowerment Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) is a policy of the South African government which aims to facilitate broader participation in the economy by black people. A form of affirmative action, it is intended especially to redress the inequalities creat ...

, a South African government program *

Bureau of Energy Efficiency The Bureau of Energy Efficiency is an agency of the Government of India, under the Ministry of Power (India), Ministry of Power created in March 2002 under the provisions of the nation's 2001 Energy Conservation Act. The agency's function is to ...

, India

Other uses

Bee (gathering) Communal work is a gathering for mutually accomplishing a task or for communal fundraising. Communal work provided manual labour to others, especially for major projects such as barn raising, "bees" of various kinds (see below), log rolling, a ...

, a gathering of people for work or competition * , three vessels and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy *

Bee (hieroglyph) The Egyptian hieroglyph representing a honey bee (𓆤 Gardiner L2). It is used as an ideogram for "bee" (''bjt''),Betrò, 1995. '' Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt,'' p. 117. but most frequently as part of the title of the King of ...

, an Egyptian language hieroglyph *

Bee (mythology) Bees have been featured in myth and folklore around the world. Honey and beeswax have been important resources for humans since at least the Mesolithic period, and as a result humans' relationship with bees—particularly honey bees—has ranged ...

* Bee Building, Omaha, Nebraska, torn down in 1966 * Bee Playing Cards * Air Bee, a short-lived airline based in Rome *

.218 Bee The .218 Bee is a .22 caliber centerfire rifle cartridge designed for varmint hunting by Winchester in 1937. The cartridge was originally chambered in the Winchester Model 65 lever-action rifles, which may have ultimately led to its lack of po ...

, a .22 caliber rifle cartridge *

.17 Ackley Bee The .17 Ackley Bee is a wildcat centerfire rifle cartridge named after its designer, P.O. Ackley, and is a .218 Bee case necked down to .17 caliber with a squarer shoulder and less body taper. Being a rimmed case it was popular with single sh ...

, a rifle cartridge *

An-Nahl The Bee (Arabic: الْنَّحْل; ''an-nahl'') is the 16th chapter (''sūrah'') of the Qur'an, with 128 verses ('' āyāt''). It is named after honey bees mentioned in verse 68, and contains a comparison of the industry and adaptability of h ...

(The Bee), the 16th sūrah of the Qur'an *

Flybe (1979–2020) Flybe (pronounced ), styled as flybe, was a British airline based in Exeter, England. Until its sale to Connect Airways in 2019, it was the largest independent regional airline in Europe. Flybe once provided more than half of UK domestic f ...

's ICAO code * Byangsi language's ISO 639-3 code