I like to abuse plurals to say this: The little bug is one ant. The colony is not "some ants" or "a bunch of ants"; it is an ants. Similarly, you have one bee

I like to abuse plurals to say this: The little bug is one ant. The colony is not "some ants" or "a bunch of ants"; it is an ants. Similarly, you have one bee, and then you have a bees. (Though there are also species of solitary bees that don't form hives, so if you have a bunch of them in the same area then you do indeed have some bees there rather than a bees.)