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humble-bees
n. (plural of humble-bee English)
Usage examples of "humble-bees".
I have, also, reason to believe that humble-bees are indispensable to the fertilisation of the heartsease (Viola tricolor), for other bees do not visit this flower.
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests.
Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, believes that 'more than two thirds of them are thus destroyed all over England.
Hence, again, if humble-bees were to become rare in any country, it might be a great advantage to the red clover to have a shorter or more deeply divided tube to its corolla, so that the hive bee could visit its flowers.