As the world awakens to the decline of the global bee population and its determinantal effects on our environment, Trinity’s installation of a campus beehive has now seen College’s first queen bee named after a four-week competition open to the public. While popular suggestions included Beeyonce; Barry B Benson, the star of Bee Movie; and Bee McBeeFace – likely inspired by the infamous public vote to name a UK research vessel “Boaty McBoatFace” in 2016 – “ Queen Medb”, containing considerably less puns, but invoking the female power of the Queen Medb in Irish mythology, emerged as the winner. Trinity claims that hundreds took part … Continue reading With “Beeyonce” and “Bee McBeeFace” Rejected, Trinity’s New Queen Bee Gets its Name