honey bee

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The study, titled "Negative Effects of Excessive Heat on Colony Thermoregulation and Population Dynamics in Honey Bees," followed nine honey bee colonies during a particularly hot summer in Arizona.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026

For the study, the researchers used data from an annual survey on winter honey bee colony loss and beekeeping management that has been sent to Pennsylvania beekeepers each spring for more than 15 years.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024

Despite the inhospitable nature of bee bread, the microbiome in hives consists of several bacterial and fungal species that are important to honey bee food preparation, storage, and digestion.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2024

From Québec to British Columbia, honey bee colonies were given the job of pollinating some of Canada's most valuable crops -- apples, canola oil and seed, highbush and lowbush blueberry, soybean, cranberry and corn.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024

The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication— on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd