Definition of bumble_bee

(B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)

Apart from the honeybee , practically all bees and bumblebees hibernate in a state of torpor .

Occasionally , you may come_across one or two bumblebees in the cold season , when you are turning_over sods in your garden , but you have_to be a really keen observer to see them at_all .

The blooms of Ribes and of the willow and sloe are the places where large_numbers of our early insects will assemble : honeybees , bumblebees , and other wild bees , and also various kinds of flies .

As we have already seen in the first chapter , bumblebees are bigger , hairier , and much more colorful than honeybees , exhibiting various combinations of black , yellow , white and orange .

If you really insist on knowing their names , an excellent book on the North_American species is Bumblebees and Their Ways by O._E._Plath .