How To Use Bumblebee In A Sentence
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A moving aerofoil generates more lift than a stationary one, and that's the principle that keeps bumblebees in the air.
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Bumblebees and the more poetic kind of astrophysicist would surely love her work.
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The monsters are like bumblebees, an engineering nightmare.
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They look enough like bumblebees to put off predators, even though they are stingless.
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Sarah's dad was already getting bumblebee socks for Christmas, but now he was also to receive a terracotta dunny.
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Honeybees (the few that have so far escaped the Varroa mites), bumblebees, various flies and beetles, and the hummingbird clearwing (a moth that thinks it's a hummingbird) frequent milkweeds too.
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My favorite transformer is still bumblebee, but I also like, Iron hide, Star scream, and so on, But where the hell was ratchet?
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A restaurant's courtyard in Oaxaca is covered with a lavender-flowering vine, attracting bumblebees and small birds.
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The monsters are like bumblebees, an engineering nightmare.
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Bird's-foot trefoil and bugloss, poppies and cornflowers, fumitory and fleabane – there were about 20 species all in bloom and, aside from the great surge of colour, the highlight for me was the bumblebees, mainly common carder and red-tailed bumblebees, that trafficked through the flowers all day long.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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Princess Bumblebee - yes, that threesome is great isn't it?
Snapshot Monday on Wednesday - London
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A bumblebee flew in the window, landed on him, and clung to his shirt, seeming to fondle the fabric with its forelegs.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Aside from having people issues and a bit of a problem with alcohol no big deal, the bumblebee was a pretty chill dude.
Helicopter Show
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He was still living down the grief he got when, after painting our house bright yellow and black, we became known as the bumblebee family.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters
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The world's smallest mammal, the bumblebee bat, is found exclusively in a small number of karst caves in Thailand.
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In these hot June days, meadow brown and ringlet butterflies, together with six-spot burnet moths, bumblebees and solitary bees and hoverflies, visit the pea family plants of bird's-foot trefoils, melilots, medicks, vetches and clovers.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Sleepy bumblebees are often found on the greater knapweed flowers.
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A bumblebee landed on another, weighing down the bloom as it forced its tongue into the nectary, before droning away across the turf.
Country diary: Westgate, Weardale
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Plath’s father was a professor of apiology and German at Boston University and author of a book about bumblebees.
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Everything in this country - daffodils, primroses, almond trees, bumblebees, nesting birds - is a month ahead of schedule.
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Skippers, bumblebees and hummingbirds know which garden they prefer: They'll flock to a yard full of colorful, nectar-rich flowers.
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When I was a child, I heard a preacher say that the bumblebee is a miracle because scientists didn't know how such thin legs could support such a weight, so this was proof that God made the bumblebee!
Intelligent Design Criminology
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He can perform The Flight of the Bumblebee on the tambourine, peppers Stephen Hawking with letters, and has the (nonspeaking) part of Yorick in the school production of Hamlet.
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This biomimetic windmill sports 19-ft. wings of aluminum and carbon fiber that rotate to and fro — à la bumblebees, hummingbirds and dragonflies — to produce 1-10 kW of wind power suitable for homes and small businesses.
Kevin Gardner | Inhabitat
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Black flies, wasps, and bumblebees may be the bane of backyard barbecues, but their keen ability to navigate from potato chip to hamburger to bare arm is the inspiration for a host of robots that may soon be hailed as international heroes.
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Counted 200 bumblebees of 4 species in a 150-square-foot patch of fireweed.
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It lunges at anything small enough to eat that passes in front of its nose, mostly grasshoppers, but also bumblebees, moths, and sometimes its own young.
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On the other hand, a single specimen will usually mix well with small, sturdy, low-salinity brackish water fish including bumblebee gobies, orange chromides, and glassfish.
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The yellow bumblebee, which used to be widespread, is now confined to the flower-rich meadows of the machair in the Hebrides.
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There were just tons of bumblebees out there this spring, when the honeybees were in the hives because it was too cold.
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The causes of the recent major declines in bumblebee populations are not certain, but some factors are known to be important.
Biodiversity 100: actions for Europe
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There were more cries, and then a faint sound like a bumblebee, but lower, and growing louder as if approaching.
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Both species bloom during mid summer to early fall, and are pollinated by either hummingbirds (L. cardinalis) or bumblebees (L. siphilitica).
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The bumblebee sizzed right under his straw hat.
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In the second half, the Steelers defense resembled a swarm of bumblebees.
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The bumblebee has developed complex machinery for collecting pollen.
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The harmonic radar has been used before to track the flights of bumblebees and honeybees.
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An abundance of parasites, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, tapeworms, and the larvae of flies, wasps, and moths, are known to infect bumblebees.
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Orchids there use their purplish pink flowers and strong scent to dupe queen bumblebees (the orchids' main pollinators in Sweden) into thinking the plants harbor nectar.
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The bushes near Carleton Beck exuded the deep sonorous zoom sound of queen red-tailed and buff-tailed bumblebees, and all around the lee side of the thicket were the hoverflies known technically as Eristalis intricarius.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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She waited till they had crossed Constitution with the rest of the crowd, watching the bumblebee bicyclist surge ahead, weaving his way dexterously through pedestrians, disappearing down 17th, her face tight and closed.
For the Sake of the Boy
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Along with my collaborators, I have experimentally investigated that cost in bumblebees.
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Henrika hovers like a bee over a flower, thinks Iris; then she remembers the painting of Henrika in her black-and-yellow bumblebee silks.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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They were flying around the trees and occasionally landing on the grass, apparently not to visit the clover flowers as the bumblebees do but just to wander about before flying off.
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Everything in this country - daffodils, primroses, almond trees, bumblebees, nesting birds - is a month ahead of schedule.
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The bumblebees," she said, pointing to bumblebee topiaries made of yellow kalanchoe and black ornamental peppers.
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The two types of stinging insects are vespids (wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, and fire ants) and aphids (honeybees and bumblebees).
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Bird's-foot trefoil and bugloss, poppies and cornflowers, fumitory and fleabane – there were about 20 species all in bloom and, aside from the great surge of colour, the highlight for me was the bumblebees, mainly common carder and red-tailed bumblebees, that trafficked through the flowers all day long.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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Soloing over the burly stomp of a song called "Hurricane Season," the young New Orleans jazzman sounded as if he had captured an epileptic bumblebee in the space between his lips and the mouthpiece of his trumpet.
FreeFest: For LDC Soundgarden, a roaring (and swirling) success
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The plight of the bumblebee is a matter of great concern.
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The single Penstemon strictus plant observed by Williams and Thomson received bumblebee visits every few minutes.
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Ally chewed a grass stalk and listened to the bumblebees.
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I chose a warm open field at the end of the road: soft fluffy little white clouds, buttercups, cow parsley, bang up against a forest, and buzzing with soft bumbly bumblebees.
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It many ways, there are many people like the buzzard, the bat and the bumblebee.
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A bumblebee blundered by Val's head on its way to visit the morning-glories.
Ralestone Luck
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Again, a comparison with the highly social bumblebee invalidates this argument.
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A bumblebee flew in the window, landed on him, and clung to his shirt, seeming to fondle the fabric with its forelegs.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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The mites don't affect other bee pollinators, such as bumblebees and leaf-cutting bees.
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The Latin name for the bumblebee is the delicious sounding Bombus
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A bumblebee flies by creating vortices: it can only fly by creating non-linear effects — there's no smooth airflow.
Times, Sunday Times
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In these hot June days, meadow brown and ringlet butterflies, together with six-spot burnet moths, bumblebees and solitary bees and hoverflies, visit the pea family plants of bird's-foot trefoils, melilots, medicks, vetches and clovers.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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A bumblebee flew in the window, landed on him, and clung to his shirt, seeming to fondle the fabric with its forelegs.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Mature plants of A.fistulosum (‘Welsh’ onion) flower in spring, attracting myriads of bumblebees and other pollinating insects.
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Predation by ants may have driven the evolution of flowers with a more tubular shape, counterbalancing the pressure for flaring caused by bumblebees and explaining the less open shape in areas where ants are more numerous.
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Enclosing bumblebees permits us to control the pollen parent, as well as the female parent.
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Considering that until relatively recently there was no explanation for the flight of the humble bumblebee, this research will greatly expand our understanding of small-scale aerodynamics.
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It sings from the bumblebee slash on a motorway truck, wild flowers massed on grass: celandine, lady's slipper, tormentil, tiny warriors pitting themselves against air fogged with chemicals…
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The North American pink lady's slipper orchid flowers during the springtime flight of the queen bumblebee.
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`Possibly she defies a scientific principle," he said, rummaging for his door key, `like the bumblebee.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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Flowers are pollinated mainly by an anthophorid bee, Ptilothrix bombiformis Cresson, and by a bumblebee, Bombus pennsylvanicus DeGeer.
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The bumblebee sizzed right under his straw hat.
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'Cause I get to ride around on a giant bumblebee, which is fantastic.
Michael Caine: A Life Large Enough For An Encore
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We've had early sightings of bumblebees in people's gardens because they are no longer hibernating throughout the winter.
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Honey bees, bumblebees, and their relatives do not have a scopa, but the hind leg is modified into a structure called the corbicula (also known as the "pollen basket").
Pollinator
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Inspired by the original cartoon but not limited by it, Jaeger modified details such as the horns on Bumblebee, sticking with the general silhouette but exchanging the horns for fins.
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Unlike honeybees, however, bumblebees do not leave their stings behind.
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The North American pink lady's slipper orchid flowers during the springtime flight of the queen bumblebee.
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For parts of its complex architecture are brimful of new life, laced with sweetness that is still a lure for bumblebees.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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A bumblebee stung me on the cheek.
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An abundance of parasites, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, tapeworms, and the larvae of flies, wasps, and moths, are known to infect bumblebees.
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Then they waited to see which shape - hypertubular or flared - was more attractive to bumblebees and ants.
