The phrase "hum of bees" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the sound made by large groups of bees. For example, "On the warm summer day, the hum of bees filled the air."
But there was a fragrant scent of herbs, the low humming of bees, And he fell asleep with his cheek on the sun-warmed earth.
"There exists in my imagination a life in the country of eternally late spring, a leafy pastorale of perpetual sunshine and the humming of bees," wrote Ashton about La Fille mal gardée, and although the ballet is French in origin – the earliest version was created in Bordeaux in 1789 – its sensibilities are English through and through.
The surroundings were serene, and the "poovf, poovf, poovf" of the smokers and the rhythmic hum of the bees was calming.
The hum of the bees is the sound of the world, the way the rush of the wind is like the roar of the sea.
"The hive has an energy and order of its own, and the hum of the bees is a welcome contrast to the taxicabs' honking and subways' clanking," she said.
AT THIS time of year Gordon Wardell loves to stand amid the almond blossoms in California's San Joaquin valley, listening to the "low-pitch, warm, happy hum" of millions of bees.
In the pitch dark, his face, which was not covered with a protective veil, hovered inches from the low hum of some 30,000 bees.
Handsome foliage of elongated hearts underpins a skyline of verticals which will continue to hum with the activity of bees deep into autumn.
For Laura Cantrell, it's sound – of bees "humming by flowered vine" – while Organized Konfusion are sent back in time by the taste of momma's home-cooking.
