Big pollinators

Usage examples of bumblebees.

There were several different kinds: huge black bumblebees, a smaller kind, striped with black and yellow fuzz, and the smooth lethal shapes of wasps, bellies pointed as daggers.

The one response he did get was a growing hum that sounded like a swarm of bumblebees moving in for the kill.

And above the variously pitched bumbling of the bumblebees a rising and falling garble.

For they were no longer small in size, because the Wizard had transformed them from bumblebees into the shapes and sizes that nature had formerly given them.

They hunted up and down the mountainside, laughing as they dodged the bomber assaults of enraged bumblebees, hunting telltale patches of yellow and white.

In amid the somnolent drone of the bumblebees, fat and lazy with midsummer pollen, he felt comfortably alone—detached, even, from the changeable weather.

One day I was mowing grass down there and discovered it had become a nesting place not for martins but for bumblebees.

One got caught between my belly and my belt, stinging me over and over, something bumblebees can do that honeybees can’t.

I was delirious and had to be rushed to the doctor, but recovered soon enough with another valuable lesson: tribes of bumblebees give intruders one fair warning but not two.

It might be, for instance, that a few dozen giant bumblebees will do the job better.

The humanoids seemed vaguely aware of attacking yellow jackets, hornets, giant bumblebees, and tarantulas, which they squashed absent-mindedly when they chanced to notice them.

Then turn loose the Jersey Special mosquitoes, the yellow jackets, the hornets, and all the other flying pests on hand except the giant bumblebees.

Sometimes they are killed by raging bumblebees or kidnapped and murdered by trolls who grind fairy-bones into a condiment to season their sauces and ragouts.