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bombus
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[ noun ] (biology,zoology) bumblebees
Synonyms Used in print (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)Let us not try to key them out at this stage of the game , and let us just call them Bombus ; there must be several dozen species in the United_States alone . If we manage to keep track of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding place , we may discover the snug little hideout which she has fixed_up for herself when she woke_up from her winter sleep . Later_on , they and the mother Psithyrus are fed by the Bombus workers . Worse still , in a number of cases it has been claimed that the Psithyrus female kills_off the Bombus queen . Related terms |
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