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Bumblebee

A bumblebee (or bumble bee, bumble-bee, or humble-bee) is any of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae, one of the bee families. This genus is the only extant group in the tribe Bombini, though a few extinct related genera (e.g., Calyptapis) are known from fossils. They are found primarily in the Northern Hemisphere, although they are also…

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Bumblebee

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related to Conservation efforts · 35
Bumblebee → Agri-environment, American, Bombus, Britain, British-derived, Bumblebee Conservation Trust, By, Conservation, Dave Goulson, Dr, Dungeness, From, Hymettus, In, International Union, Kent, Loch Leven National Nature, London's Natural History Museum, Natural England, Nature Bumblebee Specialist Group
related to Sources · 32
Bumblebee → Archived, Bumblebees, Conservation, Dale, Dave, Distribution, Ecology, Forest Service, Goulson, HBRG, Highland Bumblebees, ISBN, Johns Hopkins University Press, Jonathan Cape, Macdonald, Management, March, Michener, Murdo, Nisbet
related to Population decline · 26
Bumblebee → Additionally, Another, Asia, Authority, Bombus, Britain, British, Bumblebees, Dungeness, Europe, Farms, Foragers, In, In North America, Little, Low, Mechanisation, Most, North America, Second World War
related to In music and literature · 21
Bumblebee → Archbishop, Bishop, Bishops' Ban, Caltha Poetarum, Canterbury John Whitgift, Cutwode, Fantasia, Flight, In, It, London Richard Bancroft, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Or The Bumble Bee, Prince Guidon, Queen Elizabeth, Tailboys Dymoke, The, The Tale, This, Tsar Saltan
related to Agricultural use · 19
Bumblebee → As, Because, Biobest, Bumblebees, Canterbury Acclimatization Society, Commercial, Europe, Four, In, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Hemisphere, Roland De Jonghe, Tasmania, The, The New Zealand, Turkey, United Kingdom, When
related to Coloration · 19
Bumblebee → Another, Asilidae, Batesian, Bombus, Bombyliidae, Bombylius, Depending, Dipteran, Hymenoptera, In, In California, Many, Müllerian, Oestridae, Psithyrus, Syrphidae, Tabanidae, The, This
related to Abundance and diversity · 16
Bumblebee → Africa, Arctic, At, Australia, Bombus, Bumblebees, Canada's Ellesmere Island, Eurasia, Greenland, More, New Zealand, North America, Northern Hemisphere, Sahara, Tasmania, These
related to Reproduction and nesting · 15
Bumblebee → August, Bombus, February, For, In, July, Many, Most, Nest, Nests, Other, The, Then, These, They
related to Phylogeny · 12
Bumblebee → Apidae, Apini, Bombini, Cardinal, Danforth, Early, Euglossini, It, Meliponini, Molecular, The, Together
related to Asynchronous flight muscles · 10
Bumblebee → Bees, Bumblebees, Coleoptera, Diptera, Further, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Their, These, This

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bumblebees species bombus bees bee pollen queen workers nest nectar flight also flowers cuckoo queens colony colonies use sting one

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hoverflies often derive protection from resembling bumblebeesinstance ofHarmless insects0.80text
in Batesian mimicryinstance ofHarmless insects0.80text
and may be confused with theminstance ofHarmless insects0.80text
Bombus polarisinstance ofspecies0.80text
B. alpinusinstance ofspecies0.80text
and the parasitic B. hyperboreus occupy Arctic tundra ecosystems that extend as far north as Greenlandinstance ofspecies0.80text
Canada's Ellesmere Islandinstance ofspecies0.80text
Europe where parasiteinstance ofespecially in regions0.80text
host species have evolved togetherinstance ofespecially in regions0.80text
wood or other materials.Unlike the well-knowninstance ofthey are sensitive to vibrations transmitted through substrates0.80text
Hymenopterainstance ofThese types of muscles are called asynchronous muscles and are found in the insect wing systems in families0.80text
Dipterainstance ofThese types of muscles are called asynchronous muscles and are found in the insect wing systems in families0.80text

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