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"Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Masters flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run."
"In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisnous herbs extracts the healing dew?"

Bees are winged insects that form a monophyletic clade Anthophila within the superfamily Apoidea of the order Hymenoptera, with over 20,000 known species in seven recognized families. Some species – including honey bees, bumblebees, and stingless bees – are social insects living in highly hierarchical colonies, while over 90% of bee species – including mason bees, carpenter bees, leafcutter bees,
"Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Masters flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run."
"The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix."
"His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune; Oh, for a bees experience Of clovers and of noon!"
"For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away Ile seek him in your Bonnet brave, He seek him in your eyes."
"Hi motus animorum atque haec certamina tanta Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescunt."
"The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death."