See how the bees are humming about it--some of them honey-bees from a farmer's hive, others big bumblebees and small burrowing kinds.
For among bumblebees the drones and workers die early in the autumn, and only the queens live through the winter.
Bumblebees now hurry in, and an occasional hummingbird takes a sip of nectar.
Even without the gay color that butterflies ever delight in, these flowers contain so much nectar in their spurs, neither butterflies nor large bumblebees are long in hunting them out.
Bumblebees by the tens of thousands buzzing above acres of the farmer's clover blossoms should be happy in a knowledge of their benefactions, which doubtless concern them not at all.
Like the night-flowering catchfly this blossom has adapted itself to the night-flying moths; but when either remains open in the morning, bumblebees gladly take the leavings in the deep cup.
Owing to this flower's early season of bloom and to the depth of its spurs, in which nectar is secreted by two long processes of the middle stamens, only the long-tongued female bumblebees then flying are implied by its curious formation.
Bumblebees and hive-bees have been caught with a dozen pollen-masses dangling from a single foot.
Several species of bumblebees enter the flower, which being set in dense clusters enables them to suck the nectar from each with the minimum loss of time, the smaller bee spending about two seconds to each.
Bumblebees with their long tongues, and some butterflies, drain the deeply hidden nectar; smaller visitors get some only when it wells up high in the tube.
Among the latter may be classed the bumblebees and butterflies whose long lips and tongues pilfer ad libitum.
The dingy little cylindric flowers, hidden beneath the leaves, may be either self-pollenized or cross-pollenized by the bumblebees to which they are adapted.
Doubtless the hairs on the base of the filaments, between which certain bumblebees and other long-tongued benefactors can easily penetrate to suck the nectar secreted in a fleshy disk below, act as a stockade to little would-be pilferers.
But he soon found that the Bumblebees were not tuning up for nothing.
And Chirpy said that he supposed the Bumblebees had only one party a year, because he understood that most of them were great workers, and he didn't believe they would care to spend a whole day humming, very often.
They did not seem to realize that my swollen face was prominent in the scheme of education, nor that bumblebees and yellow-jackets may be a means of grace.
But no teacher ever even hinted to me that the knowledge I acquired from my contest with a nest of belligerent bumblebeeshad the slightest connection with power.
I don't fightbumblebees any more, which proves that my knowledge generated power.
The emotions of my boyhood presented a scene of grand disorder, and those bumblebees helped to organize them, and to clarify and define my sense of values.
There's a lot ofbumblebees over there, always," said Johnnie Green hopefully.
But he had always supposed that all bumblebees stung fiercely.
You can take the eggs out of the nest and put a blooded bull-dog or a nest of new-laid bumblebees in place of them, and she will hover over them as assiduously as she did before.
Edith plucked impatiently at the strings of the double-bass, and aroused the bumblebees again.
She could not at present get much tone out of them; but for volume, it was as if all the bumblebees in the world were swarming in all the threshing-machines in the world, which were threshing everything else in the world.
The bees take us higher in the scale, although many solitary species occur, as well as social forms like the bumblebeeswhere colonies are formed in a single season only to break up with the advent of cold weather.
The small red-banded bumblebees that lived in large colonies in holes in the ground afforded me the largest yields.
I studied the ways of the bumblebees also, and had names of my own for all the different kinds.
Am I never to see them romp back to their places, Where over the meadow, In sunshine and shadow, The meadow-larks trill, and the bumblebees drone?
The driver cracked his whip, the golden harness rattled and tinkled, and the wheels of the dainty coach began to whir as the steady buzz of the bumblebees in flight began.
In a few minutes they heard the tinkle of the golden harness and the stamp of the bumblebees on the pavement, eager to be off.
So the coachman cracked his whip, the bumblebees again champed at their bits and snorted, then broke into a gallop that fairly made the little coach fly up the main street to the Royal Court of the Fairy city of Almalena.
Then, taking their seats as before, off they went through the air, flying as straight and fast as the strongest bumblebees can go.
Indeed, it had been their eyes which the Twins saw as they leaned over the edge; and it was their strange, steady buzzing which had made the noise they heard--a very busy and pleasant sound when bumblebees are going as fast as these had been.
So saying she beckoned to the coachman, and the Bumblebee Express swept up once more, the bumblebees stamping and champing at their bits.
Illustration: Captain's Hill from Marsh Margin] I have no doubt about thebumblebees and the turtle-heads.
Honey bees would find ready entrance, but the burly bumblebees are far too fat.
They began to come close around me; two bumblebeeshung on a frond of goldenrod so close to my face that I could see the pollen dust on their fur.
But as the field grew warmer it grew populous, bumblebees hummed, and finally some little soft brown bees arrived--surely the ones we wanted.
Bumblebees here and there, more hairy than at home.
A large thistle by the roadside, with homeless bumblebees on the heads as at home, some of them white-faced and stingless.
The bumblebees flew out in an angry cloud, but Sidney, the dauntless, stood at her post.
And forthwith the bumblebees began to go zip-zip-zip--straight into the steaming mouth of the crater.
It has been supposed that the failure of the clover seed crop in some places is due to the destruction of bumblebees; whether this is true or not, we are certain that bumblebees visit clover blooms, and the teacher can observe for himself.
Bumblebees had to be imported into Australia before clover seed could be produced there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bumblebees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
