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jasminekitty | 01:18 Fri 07th Jun 2002 | Phrases & Sayings
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what does bee in someone's bonnet mean
  
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Having a bee in one's bonnet means that something is really annoying them. A bonnet is a ladies hat.
Click http://www.bartleby.com/101/268.html and a link will take you to a web-page with Robert Herrick's 17th century poem 'A Mad Maid's Song'. This is, supposedly, where the idea that having a bee in your bonnet is a sort of madness comes from.

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