I was born in 1943 and remember a children’s book about a pond.  The pond was home to many animals – rabbits, frogs, fish, badgers, etc.  But it also was one to a wicked beaver who wanted to destroy the pond.  All the animals had to get together to defeat the beaver and save their pond.  Of course they were successful.  I remember something about the bees swarming and biting the beaver mercilessly as part of their battle plan.  And it worked.