it is an essential ingredient of the city's cultural fabric and its neighborhood. all samba schools have their own flags and icon or symbols.  

favo de acarí's colors are green, pink and gold.  the bee is the school's symbol. it represents the favo (honeycomb in portuguese).

a favo is a honeycomb, the wax structure used by bees to produce honey. it also expresses the founder's and the member's feelings that acarí is a honey of a community.