bee - any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species

Apis, genus Apis - type genus of the Apidae: honeybees

Africanized bee, Africanized honey bee, Apis mellifera adansonii, Apis mellifera scutellata, killer bee - a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas

black bee, German bee - dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin

Carniolan bee - grayish highly productive European honeybee that has a quiet disposition

Italian bee - yellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits