queen bee A queen bee is typically an adult, mated female ( gyne) that lives in a colony or hive of honey bees. With fully developed reproductive organs, the queen is usually the mother of most, if not all, of the bees in the beehive. Queens are develope ...

is the matriarch of a

honey bee A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus ''Apis'' of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia. After bees spread naturally throughout Africa and Eurasia, humans became responsible for the ...

colony. Queen bee may also refer to:

People

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(born 1974), known as Queen B/Bee *

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(born 1981), known as Queen B/Bey

Music

* Queen Bee (band), a Japanese musical group * ''Queen Bee'' (EP), 2014 EP by Little Ghost * Queen Bee Entertainment, a record label * "Queen Bee", a song by

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* "Queen Bee", a 1981 song by Grand Funk Railroad on the album '' Grand Funk Lives'' * "Queen Bee", a 2014 single by Tina Guo * Queen Bees, a Norwegian musical group made of up of Rita Eriksen, Anita Skorgan and Hilde Heltberg * "Queen Bee", a song by singer Rochelle Diamante * "Queen Bee", a song by singer Sylvia (1977) * "Queen Bee," a song by actor Johnny Flynn for the 2020 film ''Emma'' * "The Queen Bees", a Bluegrass group featuring Aundrea Ware, Joey Ball, Suzanne Nadeau-Porter, Pam Rosenthal and Portia Rodgers

TV and film

* ''Queen Bee'' (1955 film), an American film starring Joan Crawford * ''The Queen Bee'' (女王蜂 ''Neoiwongfung''), a 1974 Hong Kong film produced by Golden Harvest * ''Queen Bee'' (1978 film), a 1978 Japanese starring Kōji Ishizaka * ''Queen Bees'' (TV series), a 2008 reality series that aired on The N * ''Queen Bees'' (film), a 2021 American film starring Ellen Burstyn and James Caan * "

Queen Bee A queen bee is typically an adult, mated female ( gyne) that lives in a colony or hive of honey bees. With fully developed reproductive organs, the queen is usually the mother of most, if not all, of the bees in the beehive. Queens are develope ...

", a 2023 special episode of ''Helluva Boss'' ** Queen Bee-lzebub, a reoccurring ''Helluva Boss'' character

Literature

* '' The Queen Bee'', a fairy tale *" The Queen Bee (Garrett story)", a science fiction story by Randall Garrett * Queen Bee (comics), the name of four different DC Comics supervillains * ''Queen Bee'' (graphic novel), by Chynna Clugston * ''Queen Bee'' (newspaper), newspaper founded by Caroline Nichols Churchill in 1882 * , a 1951–1952 novel by Seishi Yokomizo in the Kōsuke Kindaichi series

Transportation

* Queen Bee (aircraft), an unmanned aircraft used in World War II * ''Queen Bee'' (ship), an 1852 barque that ran aground on Farewell Spit, New Zealand in 1877 * Queen Bee (steamer) a 1907 steam collier that sunk off Barrenjoey lighthouse Australia in 1922

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