How big is Honey bee?
Honey bee: 13 mm (0.04 ft). Measured as length — a worker.
Source: Wikipedia — Western honey bee
Where it sits
Among the 23 animals on this page honey bee ranks 23rd from the top by size. The largest in the group is blue whale at 29.9 m, which is 2,300× the size of honey bee.
Next to an adult of 1.7 m it is small: the person is 131× bigger, so 130 of them laid end to end would reach one person's height.
In everyday distances
It fits inside a football pitch 8,077 times over — a pitch is about 105 m and honey bee is only 13 mm.
Walking at an easy 1.4 m/s you cover 13 mm in 9 milliseconds. A jet at 900 km/h covers it in 52 microseconds.
Next to its neighbours in size
The nearest thing larger than it in this collection is bee hummingbird at 57 mm (0.19 ft), 4.38× the size. Both figures are the same kind of measurement, so the gap is a fair one.
Against fixed yardsticks
Against three fixed yardsticks — Eiffel Tower (330 m) is 25,385× the size of honey bee; blue whale (29.9 m) is 2,300× the size of honey bee; Earth (12,742 km) is 980,153,846× the size of honey bee.
How this figure was taken
Animal sizes vary from one individual to the next, so each figure says which individual or average it describes. Heights are taken at the shoulder or standing; lengths run nose to tail tip unless stated.
How the sizes are taken. Each figure says what it measures — height, length, diameter or elevation — and for which individual or convention. Everything is drawn standing upright on one baseline so a single scale holds, including things that are long rather than tall. Values come from the linked Wikipedia article for each item.
Read the rest — common questions
How big is the honey bee?
13 mm (0.04 ft), measured as length: a worker.
Where does the honey bee rank among animals?
Number 23 of 23 on this site, from blue whale at 29.9 m down to honey bee at 13 mm.
What is the next size up?
Bee hummingbird, at 57 mm, is 4.38× the size.
How reliable is the figure?
It is taken from the cited Wikipedia article and states its basis (a worker). Values are rounded, and where individuals differ the figure is a representative one, so expect small differences from other sources.