Definition of bumblebee
: any of numerous large robust hairy social bees (genus Bombus)
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The scene: Visitors in the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens near London have reported hundreds, if not thousands of bees, especially bumblebees, sick or dead, beneath fragrant, flowering Tilia trees.
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Exeter’s model demonstrates that the competition sparked by that disappearing habitat is disproportionately affecting bumblebees.
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Ghosts, goblins, zombies, superheroes, men on stilts, a bunch of human bumblebees and a float of topless people were among those making their way up Sixth Avenue as spectators bobbed to drumming and Caribbean music.
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Costumes at the Alexandria hospital ranged from a bumblebee to a strawberry to the Little Mermaid.
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Not that transcribing specimen labels for 44,000 bumblebees or variations of tropical pollen can’t be interesting, in their way.
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There are yellow bats and red bats, bats that slurp flowers and bats that drain cows, bats no bigger than a bumblebee and bats with wingspans that exceed 5 feet.
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Colonies of all-important bumblebees and honey bees donated by Koppert Biological Systems help keep things buzzing.
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Indeed, all bumblebees die at the end of the season, except for the queen, who stores up food and hibernates to start a new hive the next spring.
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First Known Use of bumblebee
1530
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: a large hairy bee that makes a loud humming sound
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