Bees knees do they have them?

From here

A bee’s “corbiculae”, or pollen-baskets, are located on its tibiae (midsegments of its legs – knees).
The phrase “the bee’s knees,” meaning “the height of excellence,” became popular in the U.S. in the 1920s, along with “the cat’s whiskers” (possibly from the use of these in radio crystal sets), “the cat’s pajamas” (pyjamas were still new enough to be daring), and similar phrases which made less sense and didn’t endure: “the eel’s ankle,” “the elephant’s instep,” “the snake’s hip.”

Stories in circulation about the origin of
“The Bee’s Knees” phrase include: “b’s and e’s,” short for “be-alls and end-alls;” and a variation/revision of the term “business.”

I thought it was just because they rhymed.

Google can help with things like this, you know :)

The first Google hit says:
A bee’s “corbiculae”, or pollen-baskets, are located on its tibiae (midsegments of its legs). The phrase “the bee’s knees”, meaning “the height of excellence”, became popular in the U.S. in the 1920s, along with “the cat’s whiskers” (possibly from the use of these in radio crystal sets), “the cat’s pajamas” (pyjamas were still new enough to be daring), and similar phrases which made less sense and didn’t endure: “the eel’s ankle”, “the elephant’s instep”, “the snake’s hip”. Stories in circulation about the phrase’s origin include: “b’s and e’s”, short for “be-alls and end-alls”; and a corruption of “business”.

The second Google hit continues by noting that no one really knows who started it, and that the first found occurrence of its current usage came from a paper in 1922, but they were only noting that the phrase existed, they did not define it. They go on to theorize that it may have come from an attractive woman at that time, Bee Jackson, and thus “the bees knees” meaning awesome would come from her being attractive. I think this is somewhat plausible, but also a bit far fetched.

I guess bees do have knees, as demonstrated by this picture. Although I’m not sure if one can call a bend in a leg a knee. I’m sure a bee’s knee does not function completely like a human’s knee.

from what i see from the above photograph,no labeling for a bees knee.I am sure they do not move there legs they are just used for holding on .

Well they have to move, or be articulated, else they would just have evolved to have straight sticks there.

But they’re more like the landing wheels on a plane than our legs, since bees don’t use their legs as their primary moving mechanism.