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On the way down, I see a red-tailed bumblebee flitting between the bluebells, gathering pollen on its tiny tibia with the focus of a craftsman.
In order to make a fly that resembled a bumblebee , he wrote, the Macedonians "wrap the hook in scarlet wool, and to the wool they attach two feathers that grow beneath a cock's wattles and are the colour of wax .According to Mr Hughes, Roman nobs thought fishing bucolic and uninteresting, and ranked fishermen alongside shepherds, labourers and peasants, people just above the level of slaves.
If they could, they then captured the insect so as not to follow it again on another occasion.Dr Goulson found, as he reports in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, that two short-tongued bumblebee species which live in the area, Bombus lucorum and Bombus wurflenii, demonstrated handedness when they robbed flowers.
When your correspondent was a young aeronautics student, an elderly professor once told him, in all seeming seriousness, that it was impossible for a bumblebee to fly.
Pricing the past The last laugh ReprintsThe return of the short-haired bumblebee would be a small piece of good news amid much bee-related gloom.
Now the Bumblebee Conservation Trust thinks it has worked out how to do it.The key, according to recent work by Jaromir Cizek, a Czech bumblebee enthusiast, is to feed the queens a high-quality mix of nectar and pollen freshly collected by bumblebees, not the low-grade stuff tolerated by their close relatives, the domesticated honeybee.
Forty-eight survived the journey, and their offspring are flourishing on South Island today.One of the deported species, the short-haired bumblebee , has died out in Britain.
The country's various widget-makers, moreover, show no sign of losing their innovative edge.In this section Lean and unseen Little love lost Sold to the man at the back Shop affronts Beyond Propriety Heavyweight metal Flight of the bumblebee A prince of malls ReprintsEven in the automotive industry, GM and Delphi are arguably the exceptions.
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Rare beetles and flies such as the bumblebee -mimic hoverfly occur, alongside fungi such as chicken of the woods and oyster mushroom.
He was responsible for the bumblebee -attack scene in "One for Sorrow, Two for Joy," and the cockroaches that appeared in George Romero's "Creepshow".
Goran Persson, a former Swedish prime minister, once compared Sweden's economy with a bumblebee with its overly heavy body and little wings, supposedly it should not be able to fly but it does".
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The word "bumblebee" primarily functions as a noun , referring to a specific type of bee in the genus Bombus . Ludwig provides numerous examples of its usage in diverse contexts, consistently denoting this insect.
Expression frequency: Very common
