# The Bee — Nonsense Books character guide

> The Bee in Nonsense Books by Edward Lear.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Twitchy witchy witchy bee

**First appearance:** 0091-one-hundred-nonsense-pictures-and-rhymes

## Who they are

A bee who appears in a nonsense rhyme.

## In the story

### [Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nonsense_books_se/chapters/nonsense-rhymes-and-pictures)

Appears as a bee that horribly bores an Old Man in a tree, described as 'a regular brute of a Bee'.

### [Calico Pie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nonsense_books_se/chapters/calico-pie)

One of the insects (along with Grasshoppers, Butterfly, and Beetle) that hop and bound over the ground but never come back.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nonsense_books_se/chapters/iv)

One of the creatures that departs and never returns.

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