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Maya the Bee
2013 - 2017 7.2 (24 votes) 4 Seasons
Official Website
Genres
Animation Kids
Networks
KiKa
Created By
Fin Edquist
Martin Quaden
Alexs Stadermann
Waldemar Bonsels

Maya the Bee (Die Biene Maja)

Overview

Hello everyone, I'm Maya the Bee! What do I love? Freedom! That's why I live in the meadow instead of the hive. I have a thousand and one adventures with my friends: Shelby snail, Max the worm ... and of course Willy! Willy is very lazy and greedy ... But he's my best friend. Together, we go on an many adventures! Let's go!

Key Crew

Producer: Katell France

Director: Daniel Duda

Top Cast

Zalina Sanchez

Maja (Voice)

Hans-Jürgen Dittberner
Hans-Jürgen Dittberner

Flip (Voice)

Ben Hadad

Ben (Voice)

Sonja Deutsch

Königin (Voice)

Lukas Till Berglund

Max (Voice)

Axel Lutter

Paul (Voice)

Klaus-Dieter Klebsch
Klaus-Dieter Klebsch

Piekser

Gerd Meyer

Willi (Voice)

Seasons

Season 0 poster
Season 0 (2014)

No overview available.

1 episodes

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (2013)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Birth of Maya
2013-04-01

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 2: The Take Off
2013-04-01

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 3: The Queen's Messenger
2013-04-01

With the official Queen messenger being absent, Miss Cassandra organises a contest to select the new junior messenger. Maya, Willy, Lara, Max and Shelby will compete against each other during a wild race through the meadow.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 4: Night Blooms
2013-04-01

Maya and Willy cross the forest to see a very rare flower, the moonflower, but they get caught by the night and get lost. Luckily, they can count on a firefly to help find their way back.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 5: Willy's Bottle
2013-04-02

Maya and Willy discover an abandoned soda bottle in the meadow. As Willy flies into the bottle to taste the delicious and sweet liquid, the bottle rolls down a slope, taking Ben's ball with it.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 6: Keep Ball Rolling
2013-04-02

A fly has stolen Ben's ball to use it as a nest to lay her eggs. Unfortunately, it's the ball Ben wanted to show at the big dungbeetle meeting! Maya and Willy decide to help Ben to make a new ball dedicated to the fly only.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 7: Judge Beeswax
2013-04-03

When Judge Beeswax discovers that Maya lives outside of the hive, he banishes her from the hive and the meadow, believing her life-style is a threat for the other bees.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 8: Crack!
2013-04-03

While playing, Maya and Willy break Shelby's shell by mistake. They have to find a way to repair the crack before it gets dangerous for their friend.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 9: Powder Power
2013-04-04

Maya has accidentally wet Beatrice's wings. She has lost some of her powder and can't fly anymore. Maya has to find a solution to help her as the great butterfly ball is fast approaching...

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 10: Maya to the Rescue
2013-04-04

Maya and Willy would like Max to discover the delicious taste of his tree's fruits. They carry him through the air to the tops but unfortunately Max gets grabbed by a bird. Maya organises a large scale rescue operation.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 11: No Sleep for Maya
2013-04-05

A cricket keeps the whole meadow from sleeping. Maya and Willy look for him. Chris, the cricket, is just trying to invite Lila the lady cricket to go to the ball but he sends her the wrong message!

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 12: Royal Outing
2013-04-05

Fed up with the heavy protocol, the Queen decides to leave the hive for a moment to visit the meadow. She meets Maya who is thrilled to make the Queen discover her universe. But without the Queen, the hive becomes chaos...

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 13: The Stranger
2013-04-06

Maya and her friends discover a huge slime trail and Shelby's mushrooms have all disappeared. Barry knows for sure what happened: there is a monster in the meadow! Maya decides to investigate further.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 14: Beware of the Bear
2013-04-06

Willy see's a bear nearby so Maya tells the Queen who gives the order to evacuate. When Maya and Willy realise that the panic in the hive was triggered by a teddy bear they're scared to confess their mistake to the Queen.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 15: Misleading Appearances
2013-04-07

Maya and Willy meet a nice caterpillar called Momo but he metamorphoses into a dead head hawk moth and attacks the hive and starts emptying the honey. Maya has to convince Momo to leave the hive.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 16: Sleeping Beauty
2013-04-07

While it is the great pollen harvest day, Maya and Willy have by mistake put the whole hive to sleep. Now they have to ask all their friends to help them with the bindweed harvest, a flower that blooms only one day a year.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 17: Philibert
2013-04-08

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 18: Dancing with Bees
2013-04-08

Maya finds it very difficult learning the bees dance. Flip will try to help her and thanks to his lessons, Maya will be able to show the chief worker bee a new field of flowers that will help feed the larvae brood.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 19: Willy Moves Out
2013-04-09

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 20: The Wild Bunch
2013-04-09

Flip's cousins arrive in the meadow. When they are all together, they strangely change their colour and their behaviour. As Flip is changing too, Maya realises that she might lose her friend.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 21: Bee Clean
2013-04-10

Maya and Willy have caught varroas, some sort of bee lice. The hive is infected. They decide to ask the wild bees from the forest for advice on how to get rid of these parasites.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 22: Flying License
2013-04-10

Lord Beeswaxe is visiting the hive. He is the witness of an accident caused by Maya. He decides to establish a "flying licence". Now the bees have to stay on the floor and can't do their work properly.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 23: Mrs Hermit Beetle's Journey
2013-04-11

Maya wants to help an old lady who lost her home during a storm. The old lady wants to find her brother who lives on the other side of the pond. But the old lady's memory isn't very good and they have trouble finding the way.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 24: No Friends for Dino
2013-04-11

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 25: Mother Courage
2013-04-12

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 26: Cake for the Queen
2013-04-12

Unknowingly, Willy eats the Queen's cake. Along with Maya, they will try to find out the recipe and make a new cake before everyone in the hive notices the cake has disappeared.

Runtime: 11 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (2013)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Season 4 poster
Season 4 (2017)

No overview available.

52 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Roll on the Holidays
2017-11-03

The ants are patrolling day and night without rest. Maya advise them to take a vacation. After some advice from Flip, Paul decides to put on vacation forever.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 2: Yes Sir!
2017-11-07

Maya likes to give orders to everyone, especially to Willy. But when it comes to directing ants, she realizes that this is not so simple.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 3: The Exile
2017-11-04

Beeswax was accused - wrongly - of stealing royal jelly in the pantry. He is banished from the hive. Maya will help proving his innocence.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 4: Field Trip
2017-11-04

Willy is coward. Maya requires him to take over the triplets during a school trip, to force him to overcome his fear. But the field trip will go wrong.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 5: The Orchirosa
2017-11-05

Flip tells a legend about a magical flower. The wasps use it to draw everyone out of the hive and steal honey from the pantry.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 6: Flip Has Got the Blues
2017-11-05

It's almost autumn and Flip has the blues. He plays the violin day and night - and breaks the ears of the meadow insects. One morning, his violin was gone, stolen. Annoyed , Flip decides to leave the meadow to go in hot countries. Maya is desperate.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 7: The Meadow Friends
2017-11-06

Maya tries to put on a show about friendship for a big party in the meadow. But the rehearsals generate a conflict between the flying and crawling insects.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 8: Ants See Red
2017-11-06

Paul and his ants broke Kurt's dungball. Furious, Kurt decides to replace Paul and his men by red ants, deemed very effective in helping the insects of the meadow. But perhaps the red ants are overzealous.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 9: Rosita
2017-11-07

Barry raised a frog that became tamed : Rosita. Beeswax discovers this secret and decides to hunt the frog. Maya and Willy help Barry to escape with Rosita.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 10: Theo
2017-11-03

A young bee-boy comes to the hive: Theo. He has a bad temper and refuses to fly. Maya discovers that Theo has a secret.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 11: Treasure for the Ants
2017-11-08

Maya and Willy find out that the ants discovered a treasure : sugar. They refuse to share this treasure with the other insects in the meadow, who would like to have a share. Soon, a big fight arose between Paul and Kurt.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 12: A Very Peculiar Mother
2017-11-08

Willy falls into a blueberry bush. He's now purple. Thekla the spider thinks he is a baby spider and decides to raise him in his lair. Maya wants to save his friend from the dangerous spider.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 13: Shadow of a Doubt
2017-11-09

A shadow hangs over the meadow and the beehive : it comes from an unidentified object perched on a tree in the meadow. Everyone is afraid and remains stashed - Maya, courageous , wants to be sure this is a real danger.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 14: Honeymunch
2017-11-09

A thief steals honey pots in the hive. Maya discovers that the thief is Max. He does it under the threat of a strange monster : the Honeymunch. Maya investigates to clarify the matter.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 15: Long Live Freedom!
2017-11-10

Willy is angry against Maya, too speed and bossy with him. To avoid an exercise, Willy decides to pretend to be injured. But Maya discovers that he has lied to her.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 16: In the Ranks
2017-11-10

After a goof committed by Maya, Beeswax takes measures: she must prove that she's worth going through the meadow, otherwise she will not have the right to go out and she'll become again a bee like the others. Maya is determined to keep her privilege - but wanting to prove that she is useful, she aggravates hers case. How to regain confidence of Beeswax and the Queen?

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 17: Jealousy
2017-11-11

Lara makes Willy believe that she is his girlfriend. In fact, she wants to force him to steal the royal jelly. Maya tries to make Willy understand that he has been manipulated by the little ladybug - to avoid the robbery.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 18: Bad Company
2017-11-11

Beatrice is bored with the young insects in the meadow who play kids games. She dreams of playing with teenagers friends. The wasp Doz invites her to join his team: she'll have much more fun with them than with the small ones. Beatrice accepts - Stinger sees there a way to manipulate her. He asks her to steal the queen's sceptre in the hive. Beatrice accepts to do it because she wants to be in the team. Fortunately, Maya will intervene.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 19: Lovestruck
2017-11-12

While the Queen welcomes insects of the meadow, Kurt receives a thunderbolt and suddenly falls in love with the monarch. It's very annoying as Kurt pursues the Queen - and ends up in prison. Maya wants to help him regain his senses.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 20: Stinger Stung
2017-11-12

Stinger pretends to have lost his mind - to break into the hive and stung all the honey from the pantry. He succeed in stealing - but Maya manages to fool him back.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 21: Maya the First
2017-11-13

The Queen wants Maya to replace her for a day. Maya is surprised : she knows nothing in royal management. Beeswax is very jealous : he wanted to be the replacer. He starts to secretly mess the hive and tries to make Maya guilty of those troubles.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 22: Blue Tit
2017-11-13

The injured blue tit fell on the entrance of the anthill. All ants are trapped inside with the others insects from the meadow. Paul and Maya must find a way to heal the bird so that it can go away. But they are only two - and Beeswax believes that it is not his work to help the ants and the insects of the meadow. Fortunately, the Queens not with him.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 23: A Strike in the Hive
2017-11-17

Beeswax forces the bees of the distillery to work harder and harder. They are tired - so they decide to go on strike. Maya wants to fix things. She proposes to have the ants replacing momentarily the bees in the distillery. She hopes that ants will not work well and so Beeswax will take the bees back in the distillery. But Maya's plan doesn't work as she has hoped.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 24: No Harmony for Beeswax
2017-11-14

Beeswax thinks that the origin of perfect organization of ants is their singing. So, he steals their song. It's a copyright for ever : the ants can't sing that song anymore. The ants are depressed (furthermore it's a special day : they have to parade in the meadow). How will they now patrol without their source of rhythm and above all without the motivation of this song ? Maya will help them.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 25: Fab Four
2017-11-15

Flip was part of a band with which he played in meadows and had some great success. Maya decides to reunite them for a concert - but she discovers that Flip and his friend Slip had a relationship problem : they both wanted to be the singer. Maya will find a solution to permanently resolve the problem.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 26: Big Ball
2017-11-15

Maya finds out that there is no dung beetle milestone in the history of dung beetles. Learning of this, Kurt decides to become the dung beetle that has made the biggest ball in the history of dung beetles. But quickly, Kurt is surpassed by its creation (that is really big !). Even the meadow is in danger. Maya will help him to be reasonable and leave his ball.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 27: Hive Certificate
2017-11-16

Miss Cassandra is very sick - and Beeswax is the new teacher. He replaces her in the class for small bees in the hive. Beeswax has old-school methods and find the students very ignorant. He decides to have them pass a very difficult exam. The ones who will fail will have no holidays. Maya hopes to avoid this problem.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 28: Vote for Me!
2017-11-16

The insects of the meadow are fed up with the meetings. Flip proposes to elect a maire : the one that will be responsible for all the decisions for the meadow. The insects are ok with this idea. But Stinger decides to present himself - and ends up rigging the elections. He's elected. Maya makes all that she can to make him resign.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 29: Remind Me to Eat You
2017-11-14

Maya and Willy have hurt Thekla unintentionally. To redeem themselves, they decide to feed her during her recovery. The spider takes the opportunity to discuss with them and obtain an important information : why all insects also easily escape her.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 30: Sister Knows Best
2017-11-17

Maya and Willy discover that an other spider is now living with Thekla : her sister Bella. This one is very grumpy and a good hunter . She is a real danger for the bugs. Thekla herself isn't very happy to have her sister in her house. Maya makes a deal with Thekla to force the grumpy sister to go away.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 31: Question of Confidence
2017-11-18

Willy is depressed : his last gradebook is very bad. Maya tries to cheer him up, letting him win a Rugblé game with the help of their others friends. Willy is cheered up - and thereby decides to participate to a very difficult challenge, a big race in the meadow. Maya fears to tell him she has lied about his real capacities.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 32: Flip Saves the Queen
2017-11-18

The wasps have a new secret weapon : a strange seed that makes bees and others crazy. Thanks to that seed, they kidnap the Queen and ask for a ransom. Maya, Willy and Flip must save the queen.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 33: Ballie Wallie Mystery
2017-11-19

The ants have lost a really precious bottle of royal jelly. Maya understands that the bottle have been picked up by a dung ball. She asks Ben to give the bottle back, but the dung beetle refuses. This dung ball is actually hidden with others, in his secret dung balls place. Maya will have to find a solution to discover the secret place and the bottle of royal jelly.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 34: On Top Form
2017-11-19

Shelby finds a bottle of royal jelly on the main road. He heard that this liquid has a magic power - He drinks and suddenly, he can run like the wind. Very fast, all the bugs of the meadow are in super shape thanks to the royal jelly. Maya starts to be worried and decides to make them quit - but even if the power of the jelly is in their head, the bugs are now addicted to this substance.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 35: To-Xi-Kant
2017-11-20

While she is playing with Willy, Maya is suddenly kidnapped by a masked ant : To-Xi-Kant. Willy and Paul rescue the little bee - and being face to face with To-Xi-Kant, Paul learn that he wants to have a duel with him. The winner will be the ant's new chief. To-Xi-Kant is very stealthy fighter : Paul will loose. How will Maya help her friend to win?

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 36: For the Love of Max
2017-11-20

Max is madly in love with Beatrice. But the butterfly sees him as a cute little worm, not as a lover. Maya suggests to organize a false rescue of Beatrice. So she can understand that Max is a courageous grown up worm. But the plan is not working as Maya and Max hoped.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 37: Butterfly Effect
2017-11-21

At the end of a spring party, the Queen drinks a cup of nectar that Maya brought her. The queen falls sick : it was not nectar at all. Maya investigates and follows the track to understand who put what in the cup. Finally, she discovers that she is actually responsible.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 38: Willy's Misfortune
2017-11-21

After breaking a tulip's bud, Willy believes to be victim of bad luck. His day is full of disasters - Convinced he will bring misfortune to his friends, Willy decides to leave the hive. Maya will do everything to make him see reason.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 39: Draw Me a Beeswax
2017-11-22

Beeswax is furious : someone has drawn a caricature of him in a hallway of the hive. He wants to punish all bees until he has find the guilty one. Maya wants to find out who the designer, to defuse the problem.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 40: Lara's Secret Love
2017-11-22

Lara announced to her friends of the meadow that she has a mysterious lover who sends her anonymous love letters. What a deal. Maya wants to help the ladybug by finding who is the secret writer.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 41: Private Property
2017-11-23

Beeswax is tired up with the meadow's insects playing in the flowers : it messes the pollen he wants to gather. He has an idea : privatize the flowers of the meadow. But insects do not intend to let it go and are also beginning to privatize flowers and rocks. How Maya will manage to stop this madness?

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 42: The Killer Buzz
2017-11-23

Frogs have left the pond for a mysterious reason - Maya and Willy are delighted : they can swim safely . But the departure of frogs make others insects arrive : wicked mosquitoes. They are worse than the frogs . Maya and Willy have to find a solution.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 43: The Fortune Teller
2017-11-24

Lara says she can foresee the future. Maya does not believe her - and is angry with her meadow's friends who believe in the ladybug's ability. How Maya will reconcile with her friends without betraying her convictions?

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 44: Willy in the Soup
2017-11-24

Thekla opened a restaurant. She wants to be friendly with friends of the meadow and make them something to eat rather than eat them. Maya is skeptical - can she trust the spider?

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 45: Dung Ball Drama
2017-11-25

Dung beetles are criticized by insects of the meadow. Upset, they go on strike - How to make the meadow stay clean?

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 46: The Plot
2017-11-25

Maya and Willy discover a diary. It belongs to Beeswax and reading it, the two little bees understand that the prime minister is planning something big for the Queen and the hive. Maya is sure : it's a coup plot. Maya and Willy want to warn the Queen. But are they right ? Is it really a coup plot?

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 47: Cool in the Cooler
2017-11-26

It is very hot in the meadow. Maya and her friends discover that there is a cool place in the hive : the jail. They manage to be put in jail by Beeswax. But soon all the bees want to go there too. This information comes to the ears of wasps - who see the opportunity to plunder the hive.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 48: Second Class
2017-11-26

Beeswax is terrified : babies blue tits are born in the nest. The prime minister wants to form an army of bees to protect the hive in the future. He asks Paul to have a try formation on Maya and Willy. The two little bees are not happy with this idea - but they start their formation with the two stupidest ants, Arnie and Barney.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 49: Little Treasure
2017-11-27

Maya has custody of a sassy little bee: Pamela. Pamela is determined to participate in the treasure hunt organized by Flip - But Maya does not want. It is too dangerous. Pamela will disobey - and get some troubles.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 50: Triple Trouble
2017-11-27

The triplets Zip, Zap and Zoe do not stop shouting "wolf" when there is no danger. Maya is tired - An adventure with Maya will teach the triplets it is not fun to scare others without reason.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 51: Phobia
2017-11-28

Kurt does not want to push his ball anymore : it frightens him. Maya will help the dung beetle to overcome his anguish - and find the reason for the panic.

Runtime: 11 min
Episode 52: Maya Don't Go!
2017-11-28

A missionary of an elite training hive arrives to the hive to recruit Maya. Maya is flattered to have been chosen - and agrees to leave. But her friends did not agree and will do everything to keep her with them.

Runtime: 11 min

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