Margaret Efendi

Aunt Margaret is the owner of the www.ilovebees.com web site that the Melissa (A.I.) crashes into during the I Love Bees saga. Aunt Margaret is played by Mary Varnarsdale.

Margaret is a retired substitute schoolteacher (17 years in the Vacaville school system.) She became interested in the internet through her honey business. She lives with her cat, Farnsworth.

Her hobbies include reading, especially mysteries. Her favourite books are Ellis Peters, the Brother Cadfael books, Alexander McCall Smith and the Precious Ramotswe books.

Aunt Margaret loved her niece Dana, who also ran the www.ilovebees.com site, and viewed her as the the daughter she never had.

Why I Love Bees
In the Chat with I Love Bees creators it was revealed why Melissa crashed into www.ilovebees.com. It was a memory in Melissa's head before she was washed out of Spartan training, a memory revealed in the Princess Monologue.

Where Dr. Catherine Halsey who directed the Spartan program is getting ready to start the bio-upgrades:

/ Halsey picks up a needle. Tests the plunger. Something yellow sprays out. Venom colored. / / Don't worry, she says. The queenly smile. This will hardly hurt a bit./

The needle is something that was common throughout the I Love Bees saga as it had, "Just a little sting." Just a little sting, just like a bee.