🐝 Honeybee

🐝 Honeybee is one of the bugs in Unicode's Animals & Nature group. It usually appears in messages about animal, bee, bumblebee and honey. The keyword list continues with insect, nature and spring.

🐝 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Animals and Nature. Added in 2010 with Emoji 0.6, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1F41D.

• A single 🐝 is often enough to set the tone.
• 🌸🐝 – Blossom season, days getting warmer.
• Often seen near 🪲 Beetle, 🐛 Bug and 🐜 Ant.

In ancient Egypt bees were held to be the tears of the sun god Ra, and the bee was the emblem of Lower Egypt. Napoleon chose it as an imperial sign to link himself to the Merovingians.

Many European regions keep the custom of telling the bees: when the beekeeper dies, the colonies must be informed or they will leave. Since the 2010s the bee has also become a political symbol for biodiversity.

• 🌸🐝 – Blossom season, days getting warmer.
• 🐝🪲 – Honeybee and Beetle
• 🐝🪳 – Honeybee with Cockroach
• 🐝🕷️ – Honeybee plus Spider
• 🐝🦂 – Honeybee and Scorpion
• 🐝🐛 – Honeybee with Bug

Easy to mix up with 🪲 Beetle, 🐛 Bug or 🐜 Ant. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.