Queenie

Meet Queenie the Bee, the proud and purposeful ruler of the Fernleigh Hive at Nan Fran’s Cottage. With her golden stripes and soft, steady buzz, Queenie keeps the bees of Three Little Woods, working in perfect harmony.

Every morning, she leads her hive with gentle authority, making sure the worker bees collect nectar, the builders craft honeycombs, and the guards keep the hive safe and sound. She might seem a little bossy at times, but that’s only because she cares so deeply about her colony and her friends.

Queenie often visits Dan the Gardener and Jasmine, to check on the flowers, reminding them which blooms her bees love best. She’s also a wonderful teacher, showing children how bees help fruit and flowers grow, and why teamwork, just like in a hive, makes everything stronger.

When she’s not busy directing her buzzing crew, Queenie loves to share stories with Gigi the Butterfly, about their travels and chat with Jake, about how important every bee’s job is, even the tiniest one. Her calm leadership and big heart remind everyone that great things happen when we work together.

🐝 Did you know?
Bees are vitally important to the world around us. Honey bees make honey by mixing nectar with special enzymes and then fanning it with their wings to help the water evaporate. They also make beeswax, which people use in candles, cosmetics, and even furniture polish.

But bees do so much more! They pollinate over 250,000 species of plants and more than 100 different crops,  including fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and many of the foods that farm animals rely on. In fact, bees are responsible for pollinating around one-third of all the foods we eat.

Without bees, we’d have no apples or strawberries to enjoy, no cotton T-shirts to wear, and a lot less food for animals and humans alike. That’s why Queenie proudly says, “See? That’s why I’m so important!”

Her motto: “Work together, grow together, shine together.”

You can read more about Bees here