(n.) A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many bumblebees and solitary bees have evolved to pollinate certain flowers.
(2) Studies have been made on thermal regulation in the nests of families of the honey bee Apis mellifera, wasp Dolihovespula silvestris and bumblebees Bombus terrestris, B. agrorum and B. lapidaris during their maximum development.
(3) The British habit of putting up nest boxes for birds has led to a population explosion of the tree bumblebee Bombus hypnorum.
(4) If you watch a female honeybee or bumblebee on a flower, you will see she has balls of pollen on her back legs.
(5) An earlier version said that the tree bumblebee is distinguished from other bumblebees because it always has a white tail, which is not seen in any British species.
(6) A grandmother of five, Jones sports a discrete shrill carder bumblebee tattoo on her shoulder courtesy of taking part in a green art project.
(7) Draghi used a speech in London to declare that the euro was a bumblebee (it shouldn’t be able to fly, but it can ).
(8) High intraspecific variability in all parameters characterizing digging behavior of the bumblebees was also recorded.
(9) Why it matters: It is not just honeybees that pollinate crops and flowers, bumblebees and solitary bees do too.
(10) Winners and losers Going: Species facing "severe" threats in England Red squirrel Northern bluefin tuna Natterjack toad Common skate Alpine foxtail Kittiwake Grey plover Shrill carder bumblebee Recovering: Recent conservation success stories Pole cat Large blue butterfly Red kite Ladybird spider Pink meadowcap Sand lizard Pool frog Bittern
(11) Of 25 native bumblebee species, seven are in decline and two have been declared extinct, including the short-haired bumblebee.
(12) Studies suggest that bumblebees provide $3bn (£1.8bn) worth of flower pollination annually in the US alone, while honeybees provide closer to $20bn (£12bn), Berenbaum said.
(13) We have less information for pollinators like bumblebees and for these species we take a precautionary and conservative approach in applying an additional safety factor for ensuring their protection, and that of other species.” More than a quarter of European bumblebees – and nearly one in 10 of all honeybees – are at risk of extinction, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s red list for bees .
(14) The resulting diminishing in bumblebee colony size and health can’t be translated immediately to real-world colonies.
(15) British species do often have white tails, it is, however, the combination of white tail and ginger thorax that distinguishes the tree bumblebee from others.
(16) By planting nectar and pollen-rich flowers throughout the year you can help all types of bees, not just honeybees but also wild bumblebees and solitary bees.
(17) She then rapidly contracts the flight muscles to produce the vibration, without beating her wings.” The researchers took two colonies of bumblebees in a laboratory setting and split the bees in each into three groups.
(18) The project, which is backed by government conservation agency Natural England and wildlife groups the RSPB, Bumblebee Conservation Trust and Hymettus, has involved four years of groundwork with farmers to create flower-rich meadows and field margins in Dungeness and Romney Marsh.
(19) While most bumblebees are wild, some species are increasingly used commercially to buzz pollinate.
(20) The tree bumblebee, as its name suggests, normally nests in holes in trees, but finds bird boxes the perfect habitat and has taken full advantage of the thousands of nesting opportunities provided by British bird lovers.
Honeybee
Definition:
(n.) Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.
Example Sentences:
(1) Foraging honeybees (Apis mellifera) were trained with 2 successively presented targets differing in color or odor, one of which always contained a 5-microliters drop of 50% sucrose solution and the other, a 5-microliters drop of 20% sucrose solution.
(2) We have examined the organization of the repeated and single copy DNA sequences in the genomes of two insects, the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the housefly (Musca domestica).
(3) Moderate to severe SRs were equally likely after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, and yellow hornet (65%), honeybee (67%), or wasp (70%), although historical SRs were reported more often after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, or yellow hornet (30%) than after honeybee (19%) or wasp (14%) stings.
(4) This technique was applied to several sets of figures for the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and a reasonable agreement was found with behavioral data.
(5) Honeybee alpha-glucosidase I was inactivated with diethylpyrocarbonate (DEPC).
(6) We usually only hear scary stories about invaders such as the Asian hornet , a lethal predator of honeybees.
(7) The acid phosphatase activity known to be present in honeybee venom was found in the HMW fraction.
(8) Collectively, these data support an IgE-mediated, seasonal, occupational sensitivity to honeybee-body dust.
(9) The disorder is still not fully understood, but a combination of parasites, viruses, poor nutrition and pesticides are thought to be behind the widespread death of honeybees in the US, where 40% of colonies are still dying each year .
(10) The EFSA report found the risk to honeybees from drifting pesticide dust was high when fipronil was used as a seed treatment for maize, but did not have the data to assess the risk from its use on sunflowers, or the risk via pollen and nectar, or the risk to other bees and pollinators.
(11) The loss of honeybees in many countries in the last decade has caused widespread concern because about three-quarters of the world's food crops require pollination.
(12) The discovery that drones of the Japanese honeybee (Apis cerana japonica) pollinate the oriental orchid (Cymbidium pumilum) is reported.
(13) Two new allergenic specificites were detected in honeybee venom and the two corresponding protein substances isolated by gel filtration, immunoadsorption, and ion exchange chromatography.
(14) If you watch a female honeybee or bumblebee on a flower, you will see she has balls of pollen on her back legs.
(15) They found 155 regions of DNA where the epigenetic patterns between the two varieties of honeybee differed.
(16) Last year's prolonged winter and wet summer devastated Britain's honeybee population .
(17) Old and New World African honeybee populations exhibit different frequencies of a mtDNA length polymorphism.
(18) In this study the Pb concentration in honeybees was determined by graphite furnace AAS after peroral administration of PbCl2.
(19) The UK faces a food security catastrophe because of its very low numbers of honeybee colonies, which provide an essential service in pollinating many crops, scientists warned on Wednesday.
(20) Neither of the research groups investigated precisely how fungicides could harm bees, but one possible mechanism is described in a 2013 study by US department of agriculture researchers, who found that fungicides rendered honeybees more vulnerable to parasites .