Beatrix Potter's illustrated children's book The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse (1910) features the bumblebee Babbity Bumble and her brood (pictured).
The poet W. B. Yeats wrote The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1888) with the honey bee couplet "Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, / And live alone in the bee loud glade", while he was living in Bedford Park, London [REF].