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bee /biː  /noun 1A stinging winged insect which collects nectar and pollen, produces wax and honey, and lives in large communities. Also called honeybee.- Four species in the genus Apis, family Apidae, in particular the widespread A. mellifera.
Even accounting for native bee pollinators, honeybees still do most of the pollinating of fruits and vegetables in your garden....- As with any type of wasp, bee, or yellow jacket, please exercise care to avoid getting stung!
- Of all the types of bees, honeybees have several advantages as pollinators.
2An insect of a large group to which the honeybee belongs, including many solitary as well as social kinds.- Superfamily Apoidea, order Hymenoptera: several families, often now placed in the single family Apidae.
It's an example of self-organizing cooperative behavior, and it's found among ants, bees, and other social insects....- So that touching and feeling is a shared characteristic between honey bees and stingless bees.
- There are over 30,000 species of bees and in most of them the bees live solitary lives.
3 [with modifier] A meeting for communal work or amusement: a sewing bee...- There will be an emergency quilting bee to make them a wedding quilt tomorrow at the Torger's house, but only certain families are being asked to come.
- The old-time quilting bee is well remembered, although most quilts were actually solo products.
- I've been so busy being investigated, preparing for this lynch bee starting tomorrow that I hadn't had an opportunity to…
Phrases the bee's knees have a bee in one's bonnet OriginOld English bēo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bij and German dialect Beie. A form of the word bee is found in almost all the languages that are closely related to English, and the familiar insect has inspired numerous familiar phrases. A worker is as busy as a bee, a comparison made from at least the 16th century. People used to describe an obsessive person as having a head full of bees, whereas we now say that you have a bee in your bonnet. Before close studies of insect behaviour, people believed that bees instinctively take a straight line when returning to the hive. This is the origin of beeline (mid 19th century). If you make a beeline for a place, you hurry directly to it. A spelling bee is a spelling contest, and a sewing bee a gathering for people to do their sewing together. This use, to mean ‘a meeting for communal work or amusement’, was suggested by the insect's social nature, and is first recorded in the USA in the 1760s.
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