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bumblebee
noun as in bee
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Without spoiling anything more, “Buzzkill” utilizes Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee” as a memorable needle drop.
Also present: costumes for the “Halo” series, a full-scale Bumblebee from the “Transformers” films and mushrooms and an “egg mobile” from the “Sonic the Hedgehog” movies.
Umwelt is a German term describing the perspective of an organism based on its sensory abilities, environment and anything else that contributes to its overall consciousness — the way fish must perceive water much differently than birds or how a bumblebee can see ultraviolet light but we can’t.
Further research needs to be conducted to learn about how climate change impacts bumblebee populations on the community level, yet their research finds that the insects' loss "is having a significant, negative impact on many important pollinating insect species with unknown consequences for ecosystems, both natural and agricultural."
"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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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