BEECAT

The world’s smallest, worst bee.

What this is

A kitten in a bee costume, flown across a field of rapeseed by a hand it fully trusts. It believes it is a bee. It is not a bee. It is trying.

Wingspan
Decorative
Top speed
Whatever the hand can manage
Pollination
None, ever
Commitment
Total

Observed behaviour

Flight

It has never once flown on its own. This has not affected its confidence.

The kitten in its bee costume flying low and fast over a blazing yellow canola field, flowers streaking beneath it
Extreme close-up of the kitten mid-meow, mouth wide open, sunlight rimming its fur white
The meow. This is the whole product.
Vertical wide shot, the tiny bee kitten flying over an enormous yellow field under a pale sky
Actual size, relative to the job.

Field notes

Duties attempted

Every core responsibility of a working bee, approached in good faith.

  1. The bee kitten clinging to a single canola flower with all four paws

    Landing on a flower

    Lands on the flower. The flower disagrees.

  2. The bee kitten face first in golden honeycomb with honey smeared across its nose

    Honey production

    Located the honey. Wore most of it. Produced none of it.

  3. The bee kitten up on its hind legs mid dance with both front paws in the air

    The waggle dance

    Real bees waggle to tell the hive where the flowers are. This conveys no information of any kind.

Population

There are three of them now

Formation optional. One of them is upside down.

Three kittens in bee costumes flying towards camera at sunset, the leader meowing, one completely upside down

Illustrated

Drawn

Same bee, fewer pixels, considerably better at flying.

It lands. It dances. It waves.
A sheet of nine die cut stickers showing the bee kitten in different poses
Nine poses. Cut them out.
The dance, in portrait, for your phone.
The bee kitten asleep curled inside a giant flower at sunset, backlit gold

End of shift

Clocking off

Nothing was pollinated today. Nothing will be pollinated tomorrow.