I was sitting here reading the two polls and wondered how spiders turned in to bees, well most crosses anyway.

A regular spider called spider by Kevin I believe because the animal had a thin black pattern, kind of spider-webbed, so the animals where called spiders. Now, once a spider gets crossed into say a lesser, a spider becomes a bee, well, a Lesser Bee. Same way with most of the other crosses out there with spiders in them, aside from say a spinner which is a pin crossed with a spider.

So, I am wondering, how a spider becomes a bee? In other words why was the name -bee coined to most spider crosses? Besides the fact that lesser-bee is easier to say "lesser platinum spider"