beeling

A small, young, or juvenile bee.

Noun

  1. A small, young, or juvenile bee.
    • Herein must go an egg and food for the beeling that shall hatch therefrom. - 1906, Harper's magazine, volume 113, page 593:
    • [...] in which the pollen is gathered and carried to the cells to feed the hungry little larvae or beelings when they are hatched from the egg. - 1907, Henry Christopher McCook, Nature's craftsmen:

Origin

From bee + -ling.

Forms

beelings