The presenter, in a bright red sweatshirt, is demonstrating how to construct a cardboard cut-out bumblebee.
But big as a bumblebee skimming flowers in the garden.
Her owners expect that she will be able to forage for food, as she recently captured and ate a bumblebee for a snack.
When they let the bumblebee foragers loose on the array, the insects showed a preference for visiting the blue flowers.
Some notable bumblebee species are rarely seen anymore, with others becoming increasingly scarce.
Losses were reported among four species of native bumblebee as well.
The traveling bumblebee needs to visit a number of flowers everyday, while expending as little energy as possible.
But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can.
In theory, a car can no more drift around a corner than a bumblebee can fly.
British Dictionary definitions for bumblebee
bumblebee
/ˈbʌmbəlˌbiː/
noun
1.
any large hairy social bee of the genus Bombus and related genera, of temperate regions: family Apidae
Word Origin
C16: from bumble² + bee1
Word Origin and History for bumblebee
n.
also bumble-bee, 1520s, replacing Middle English humbul-be (altered by association with Middle English bombeln "to boom, buzz," late 14c.); echoic, from PIE echoic root *kem "to hum."