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If I was an English professor I would teach a class on Bees in Literature. It’d probably be called something like “ENGL 470: Apiological Perspectives in Western Literature…” Syllabus would start out with bees as symbols of social cohesion in Hesiod and Virgil then move on to…

— Cedar You (@our_decay) February 23, 2026

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If I was an English professor I would teach a class on Bees in Literature. It’d probably be called something like “ENGL 470: Apiological Perspectives in Western Literature…” Syllabus would start out with bees as symbols of social cohesion in Hesiod and Virgil then move on to bees in Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare… I’d give a lecture about the tradition of “the telling of the bees”… finally end up at Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees and discuss how bee theory created modern liberal capitalism. Last class of the semester we’d watch The Beekeeper starring Jason Statham.