I have enjoyed nursing for many years. It has been the only career that I have ever known. Lately I have added bee keeping to my list of hobbies and was amazed with all they had to teach me. After studying the bees and exploring their hives, I started to correlate their habits and behaviors to those of nursing. Both honey bees and nurses are critical to the survival of our society as we know it, but not one bee can survive alone and not one nurse can survive alone. In a hive it takes every bee doing its job for the survival of the hive. No one bee is more important than the other and that includes the “Queen Bee”! As I continue to study the honey bees, I would like to share their instinct behaviors and to how we as nurses can learn from the little but very important honey bee.