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

"We document a substantial shift in the functional composition of bumblebee communities that is tied to a long-term increase of summer temperatures in North America," the authors write.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2024

"There are approximately 50 species of bumblebee in North America, but there are big differences between bumblebees in the same way that there are big differences between songbirds and hawks," Mola said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

And when the ball meandered down from about a mile above his head, he flailed at it as if it were a bumblebee.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt