Sentence examples for bumblebee of from inspiring English sources

That's when I saw it: the first bumblebee of spring.

The queen bees of the spectacular native "giant bumblebee" of South America, Bombus dahlbomii, are the largest bumblebees in the world.

Most bumblebees, of which there are 250 species, are more spectacular: the charismatic tigers of the insect world.

Against this background the role of forests as potential barriers for foraging bumblebees of the species Bombus terrestris agg.

It has been alive with bumblebees of a kind I rarely see, leaner and darker over all than the thumb-size, yellow-banded bumblebees that have worked their way through summer.

And bumblebees of four species, threading the dog rose in our garden, add to the flowers their own micro-trace of scent from their feet and bodies that inform other bees exactly which blooms have been visited and drained.

Bumblebees of the subgenus Psithyrus (known as 'cuckoo bumblebees', and formerly considered a separate genus) are brood parasites, sometimes called kleptoparasites, in the colonies of other bumblebees, and have lost the ability to collect pollen.

These individuals were either those bumblebees we fitted transmitters to or bumblebees of comparable size.

Great Dixter has 11 species of bumblebee, 380 species of macro-moth and 150 species of spider.

For example, in California a group of bumblebees consists of largely black species including B. californicus, B. caliginosus, B. vandykei, B. vosnesenskii, B. insularis and B. fernaldae.

However, there was a particular problem for full identification of photographs of bumblebees, with 35% of uploaded photographs of bumblebees only being identified to genus level.