A queen bee is the matriarch of a honey bee colony.

Queen bee may also refer to:

People

• Lil' Kim (born 1974), known as Queen B/Bee

• Beyoncé (born 1981), known as Queen B/Bey

Music

• Queen Bee (band), a Japanese musical group

• Queen Bee (EP), 2014 EP by Little Ghost

• Queen Bee Entertainment, a record label

• "Queen Bee", a song by John Lee Hooker

• "Queen Bee", a 1981 song by Grand Funk Railroad on the album Grand Funk Lives

• "Queen Bee", a 2014 single by Tina Guo

• Queen Bees, a Norwegian musical group made of up of Rita Eriksen, Anita Skorgan and Hilde Heltberg

• "Queen Bee", a song by singer Rochelle Diamante

• "Queen Bee", a song by singer Sylvia (1977)

• "Queen Bee," a song by actor Johnny Flynn for the 2020 film Emma

• "The Queen Bees", a Bluegrass group featuring Aundrea Ware, Joey Ball, Suzanne Nadeau-Porter, Pam Rosenthal and Portia Rodgers

TV and film

• Queen Bee (1955 film), an American film starring Joan Crawford

• The Queen Bee (女王蜂 Neoiwongfung), a 1974 Hong Kong film produced by Golden Harvest

• Queen Bee (1978 film), a 1978 Japanese starring Kōji Ishizaka

• Queen Bees (TV series), a 2008 reality series that aired on The N

• Queen Bees (film), a 2021 American film starring Ellen Burstyn and James Caan

"Queen Bee", a 2023 special episode of Helluva Boss

• Queen Bee-lzebub, a reoccurring Helluva Boss character

Literature

• The Queen Bee, a fairy tale

• "The Queen Bee (Garrett story)", a science fiction story by Randall Garrett

• Queen Bee (comics), the name of four different DC Comics supervillains

• Queen Bee (graphic novel), by Chynna Clugston

• Queen Bee (newspaper), newspaper founded by Caroline Nichols Churchill in 1882

• , a 1951–1952 novel by Seishi Yokomizo in the Kōsuke Kindaichi series

Transportation

• Queen Bee (aircraft), an unmanned aircraft used in World War II

• Queen Bee (ship), an 1852 barque that ran aground on Farewell Spit, New Zealand in 1877

• Queen Bee (steamer) a 1907 steam collier that sunk off Barrenjoey lighthouse Australia in 1922

Other uses

• Queen bee (sociology), a term in cliques and social groups

• Queen Bee Copper Mine, a former mine. at Illewong, New South Wales

See also

• Queen bee syndrome, in which women discriminate against female subordinates

• Q-Bee, a character from the Darkstalkers video game series

• Queen B (disambiguation)