beeling

From bee +‎ -ling.

beeling (plural beelings)

1. A small, young, or juvenile bee.
   • 1906, Harper's magazine, volume 113, page 593:

     Herein must go an egg and food for the beeling that shall hatch therefrom.

   • 1907, Henry Christopher McCook, Nature's craftsmen:

     [...] 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.

• Ebeling