Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 20, 1958
Transcript:
A bee is flying after Violet in the field as she runs crying for help.<br> <br> She runs by Linus, who is holding his blanket, crying for help.<br> <br>He TWACKS the bee with his blanket.<br> <br> Violet looks down on the ground at the dead bee. Linus walks off saying, "Not unlike Robin Hood.."<br> <br>
More likely it was some kind of hornet, like a yellowjacket. Regular honeybees (not the Africanized ones) aren’t that aggressive and are valuable pollinators and shouldn’t be just killed indiscriminately.