Any large or noticeable insect, typically a bumblebee, a beetle, or a hoverfly, whose appearance in a house or around a person is supposed, in popular folklore, to indicate that news of some kind will soon arrive.
Origin
1930s.
Definition of news bee in US English:
news bee
noun
US, Caribbean informal
Any large or noticeable insect, typically a bumblebee, a beetle, or a hoverfly, whose appearance in a house or around a person is supposed, in popular folklore, to indicate that news of some kind will soon arrive.