Exempel på bumblebee

• A bumblebee blundered by Val's head on its way to visit the morning-glories. 

• A bumblebee flew in the open window and buzzed dangerously near the hero's head. 

• A tired bumblebee hums past, rolls lazily over a clover blossom at your feet, and has his midday luncheon. 

• All at once, out of one of them, there flew a big buzzing bumblebee. 

• Now and then a dove flashed by, and a golden bumblebee blundered into the chamber. 

• After that, no more unmarked bumblebees visited the site, only the previously marked animals.

• The protruding stigma of long-styled flowers is much more likely to contact other parts of bumblebee bodies.

• The bumblebees were immobilized with a soft plug in a tube with a coarse mesh on one end, through which the paint could be applied.

• The honey bee and bumblebee industries provide several examples of the threats involved with pollinator introductions.

• Problems with heterospecific pollen transfer among species may occur depending on the degree of floral constancy of individual bumblebee visitors.

• This may be due to the fact that we did not discriminate between different body parts when collecting pollen from bumblebees.

• Aerodynamics experts once believed that bumblebees should not be able to fly.

• Daily visitation rate multiplied by flower life span gives the expected number of bumblebee visits that a flower received in a lifetime.

• Communities of bumblebees : testing the core-satellite species hypothesis.

• Of these, 171 were made by marked workers and 50 by unmarked bumblebees.

• Individual bumblebees showed no constancy in plant choice, judging from the high number of different pollen types (6-12) on their bodies.

• We were unable to follow bumblebees after they stopped foraging at a patch, because the insects would fly away swiftly and be lost from sight immediately.

• Food niche analyses of bumblebees: a comparison of three data collecting methods.

• Asteraceae pollen was common in the pollen loads of both groups of bumblebees.

• Three chapters are devoted to honey bees while six focus on other species namely the bumblebees, alkali bees, alfalfa leaf-cutting bees, mason bees and carpenter bees.