You don’t often hear anyone using the phrase “bee in your bonnet” these days, reasonable since it goes back to 1600’s ...

People dressed as bees protest in London against the use of pesticides. Photo: Dan Kitwood/ Getty Images If you have a bee in your bonnet about something, you are obsessed with it and can't stop ...

If only I had a bee in my bonnet — a real one. Not finding any in my garden as I ready it for spring planting puts one there, symbolically speaking. The fruit trees and strawberries are in bloom.

I didn’t mean to alarm my husband, but I’m afraid he came home to one, two long white gloves, my beekeeping veil, my bee suit abandoned on the lawn. When Michael arrived, he clomped up the kitchen ...