Found!
Faster than I would have believed, I received a copy of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1976, completely devoted to Damon Knight. And the first story, “I See You,” is indeed the story that I was searching for. And the part about bees? It was toward the end of the story and was an example of what this time viewer could do, other than see what neighbors and forerunners did behind closed doors:
Using the tracer, an entomologist in Mexico City is following the ancestral line of a honey bee. The images bloom and expire, ten every second: the tracer is following each queen back to the egg, then the egg to the queen that laid it, then that queen to the egg. Tens of thousands of generations have passed; in two thousand hours, beginning with a Paleocene bee, he has traveled back into the Cretaceous. He stops at intervals to follow the bee in real time, then accelerates again. The hive is growing smaller, more primitive. Now it is only a cluster of round cells, and the bee is different, more like a wasp. His year’s labor is coming to fruition. He watches, forgetting to eat, almost to breathe. (p. 14).
Thanks for your help in finding this!
