bumblebee

Example Sentences

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“If you were a bumblebee, a moth, or a short-tongued solitary bee, how might you approach this bloom?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Buglife said at least two of the UK's 25 species of bumblebee were believed to have started nest-building early.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2025

In bumblebee colonies across Europe, we found an average of eight, and up to 27, distinct pesticide compounds.

From Salon • May 14, 2024

The rusty-patched bumblebee was the first bee species to be federally listed as endangered in 2017 through the U.S.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

I was thanking my stars that I’d learned to make nice buttonholes, when the parlor door opened and shut, and someone began to hum, Kennst Du Das Land, like a big bumblebee.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott