A seldom seen expression these days is 'B-girl'. It's a nickname given to an often trashy woman whose job it was to hang out in bars and encourage men to drink heavily. Sometimes these B-girls and their confederates would rob the men but mostly they just worked to up the bar tabs. In "The Bee and the Rose" we have a different sort of 'Bee-girl'--these are ladies dressed up like Bees! And what do these Bee-girls do all day? Yup...dance! In this Segundo de Chomón film, it has not much in the way of plot and consists mostly of scantily clad (for 1908) girls dancing. Some could dance pretty well--many others really couldn't. The only plot, such as it is, is late in the film when a spider comes and is drive away...and it's done in a very lame and anti-climactic manner. All in all, one of the sillier and more pointless silent shorts I've seen--and I've seen thousands.
By the way, this copy from archive.org appears to have been made from at least two different prints. When it begins, the print is clear and uses some of the Pathe Brothers' colored stenciling--making some of the items in the film color (in a very primitive process). However, then the film quickly switches to a blurrier and non-colored print.