A honey bee, a flying insect that lives in a hive and makes honey. Depicted as a black-and-yellow bee with clear or white wings and a stinger. Variously facing left in full profile or shown from above.

May be used to represent various types of bees (e.g., bumblebees) and wasps (e.g., hornets, yellow jackets), as well as beekeeping more generally. May also be used metaphorically for being busy, as in the expression “busy as a bee,” or as a stand-in for the letter or sound “B” in an emoji-based rebus.