| COLONIES | Bunches of bees and blackbirds |
| SWARMS | Bunches of bees |
| KAMA | Represented with a bow of sugar cane, a bowstring of bees and arrows of flowers, the Hindu god of love (4) |
| ASWARMASTOAST | A lot of bees and a mustelid get round sun and are comfortably heated (2,4,2,5) |
| ANTS | Relatives of bees and wasps |
| NEILL | Actor in films including The Country Girls. The Piano, The Horse Whisperer and Blackbird who also played the part of Thomas Wolsey in The Tudors (5) |
| WARBLES | Songbird does it, primarily robin and blackbird in part of UK (7) |
| MINT | Common name of a family of bee and butterfly-enticing plants/herbs including lemon balm, hyssop, lavender, rosemary, marjoram and self-heal (4) |
| COLLECTOR | There are many different types of worker bees, all with their own job to do. These include:- ___ bees, Transfer bees, Guard bees, Nurse bees, Builder bees, Housekeeper bees and Fan bees |
| TREES | "Let me tell you 'bout the birds and the bees and the flowers and the ... and the moon up above; And |
| IVY | Providing nectar for bees and butterflies and a bounty of winter berries for blackbirds, thrushes, redwings and wood pigeons, the evergreen vine Hedera helix (3) |
| THETREES | Herb Newman wrote that song about the birds and the bees and the flowers and these (3,5) |
| INSECTS | An entomologist is a scientist who studies ants and bees and beetles and fleas |
| TALKS | "The birds and the bees" and others |
| HYMENOPTERA | Order of insects which includes bees and wasps (11) |
| NATURE | The birds and the bees and a flower finished off King Cole (6) |
| SWAMMERDAM | Dutch naturalist, biologist and microscopist noted for his study on bees and for being the first per |
| NECTAR | A sugary fluid produced by plants and collected by bees and other animals (6) |
| ROYALJELLY | Substance secreted by the pharyngeal glands of worker bees and fed to larvae destined to become queens |
| BORAGE | A mildly cucumber-flavoured herb with azure, cerulean or sky-blue star-shaped flowers beloved by bumblebees and honey bees and used to garnish a claret/Pimm's cup (6) |
