bee

seura, talkoot, kilpailu

mehiläinen A flying insect, of the superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies and for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.
1499, (w), The Bowge of Courte:

His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge(nb..).

An angry Wasp th'one in a viall had, / Th'other in hers an hony-laden Bee.

Can there be a more formall, and better ordered policie, divided into so severall charges and offices, more constantly entertained, and better maintained, than that of Bees?

Bees pollinate many of the world’s crops—a service estimated to be worth $15 billion a year in America alone.