The Best Bee Tattoos

Bees are an essential part of our lives from helping produce the food we eat by pollinating fruit, vegetables nuts and plants to the clothes we wear by pollinating cotton. Life would be a constant struggle or even impossible without bees and many people recognize this and want a bee tattoo in honour of the insect that makes so many things possible, as a plus they are also aesthetically pleasing making for some great bee tattoo designs.

There are many different species of bees, roughly 20,000, so there’s a huge range to choose from when getting a bee tattoo, the most popular is bumble bee tattoos closely followed by honey bee tattoos.

Bee Tattoo Meaning

although bee tattoo meanings can change depending on the species, the following is the most common bee tattoo meanings

  • Hard work or being busy.
  • Going through pain or having had pain in the past
  • Having a memory or past situation haunt or follow you around.
  • Working well together with others.

A queen bee tattoo meaning can be a completely different one to that of other types of bee tattoos, it symbolizes strength power and control.

 

Bee Tattoo 3 by Arielle Gagnon
Arielle Gagnon

Bee Tattoo 2 by Arielle Gagnon
Arielle Gagnon

Bee Tattoo 4 by Arielle Gagnon
Arielle Gagnon

Bee Tattoo by Arielle Gagnon
Arielle Gagnon

Bee Tattoo by Summer Heath
Summer Heath

Bee Tattoo 2 by Alexandyr Valentine Alexandyr Valentine

Bee Tattoo 3 by Alexandyr Valentine Alexandyr Valentine

Bee Tattoo 2 by Brent Goudie
Brent Goudie

Bee Tattoo 2 by Drew Shallis
Drew Shallis

Bee Tattoo 2 by Ellis Arch
Ellis Arch

Bee Tattoo 2 by Fraser Peek
Fraser Peek

Bee Tattoo 2 by Michelle Maddison
Michelle Maddison

Bee Tattoo 2 by Patrick Whiting
Patrick Whiting

Bee Tattoo 2 by Phoebe Hunter
Phoebe Hunter

Bee Tattoo 3 by Drew Shallis
Drew Shallis

Bee Tattoo 3 by Ellis Arch
Ellis Arch

Bee Tattoo 3 by Fraser Peek
Fraser Peek

Bee Tattoo 3 by Patrick Whiting
Patrick Whiting

Bee Tattoo 3 by Phoebe Hunter
Phoebe Hunter

Bee Tattoo 4 by Alexandyr Valentine
Alexandyr Valentine

Bee Tattoo 4 by Ellis Arch
Ellis Arch

Bee Tattoo 4 by Patrick Whiting
Patrick Whiting

Bee Tattoo 5 by Alexandyr Valentine
Alexandyr Valentine

Bee Tattoo 5 by Patrick Whiting
Patrick Whiting

Bee Tattoo 6 by Alexandyr Valentine
Alexandyr Valentine

Bee Tattoo 6 by Patrick Whiting
Patrick Whiting

Bee Tattoo 7 by Alexandyr Valentine
Alexandyr Valentine

Bee Tattoo 7 by Patrick Whiting
Patrick Whiting

Bee Tattoo by Alexandyr Valentine
Alexandyr Valentine

Bee Tattoo by Brent Goudie
Brent Goudie

Bee Tattoo by Dean Kalcoff
Dean Kalcoff

Bee Tattoo by Drew Shallis
Drew Shallis

Bee Tattoo by Ellis Arch
Ellis Arch

Bee Tattoo by Fraser Peek
Fraser Peek

Bee Tattoo by Jon Leighton
Jon Leighton

Bee Tattoo by Leah Tattooer
Leah Tattooer

Bee Tattoo by Michelle Maddison
Michelle Maddison

Bee Tattoo by Patrick Whiting
Patrick Whiting

Bee Tattoo by Phoebe Hunter
Phoebe Hunter

Bee Tattoo by Stefan Salamone
Stefan Salamone

Bee Tattoo 2 by Raine Knight
Raine Knight

Bee Tattoo 3 by Raine Knight
Raine Knight

Bee Tattoo by Raine Knight
Raine Knight