_:vb6800930 "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?"@en . _:vb6800931 "1610\u20131611 (date written), William Shakespeare, \u201CThe Tempest\u201D, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00A0[\u2026] (First Folio), London: [\u2026] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 17:"@en . _:vb6800929 "An angry Wasp th'one in a viall had, / Th'other in hers an hony-laden Bee."@en . "1" . _:vb6800932 "1657, Samuel Purchas, \u201CThe Excellency of Bees\u201D, in A Theatre of Politicall Flying-Insects.\u00A0[\u2026], London: [\u2026] R. I. for Thomas Parkhurst,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page 1:"@en . . _:vb6800928 "His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge\u00A0[\u2026]."@en . _:vb6800930 "1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes\u00A0[\u2026], book II, London: [\u2026] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC:"@en . . _:vb6800931 "Ariell: / Where the Bee \u017Fucks, there \u017Fuck I, / In a Cowslips bell, I lie, / There I cowch when Owles doe crie, / On the Batts backe I doe flie / after Sommer merrily. / Merrily, merrily, \u017Fhall I liue now / Vnder the blo\u017F\u017Fom that hangs on the Bow."@en . _:vb6800928 . . _:vb6800929 . _:vb6800930 . _:vb6800928 "1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:"@en . _:vb6800931 . _:vb6800932 . _:vb6800927 "A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey."@en . _:vb6800933 . _:vb6800929 "1590, Edmund Spenser, \u201CBook III, Canto XII\u201D, in The Faerie Queene.\u00A0[\u2026], London: [\u2026] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, \u2192OCLC:"@en . _:vb6800932 "Bees are the mo\u017Ft excellent of all In\u017Fects vvhat\u017Foever, and expre\u017F\u017Fe both vvorth and vvonder in all their vvaies: [\u2026]"@en . _:vb6800927 . _:vb6800933 "Bees pollinate many of the world\u2019s crops\u2014a service estimated to be worth $15 billion a year in America alone."@en . _:vb6800933 "2012 March 31, \u201CSubtle poison\u201D, in The Economist:"@en .