noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bee sting
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a bee sting
spelling bee
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
africanized
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Without question, the Africanized bees are here to stay.
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Let Africanized bees do their bit to breed better beekeepers in this country, in other words.
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Where you once only had to worry about rattlesnakes and water, you now find Africanized bees , too.
busy
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But he still got his picture of the beekeeper and his busy little bees .
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We know how Disney chose to describe his role at the studio: Walt, the busy bee .
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Ideas buzz around like busy bees , but the sting that's left behind is always in the heart.
national
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It was the kind of scenario that, eventually, inevitably, would draw the national press like bees to honey.
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Her trip to the national bee was sponsored by the Albany Times Union.
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Hulka, making his fourth appearance at the national bee , repeated the word seven times before attempting to spell it.
■ NOUN
bumble
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This is far too sparing for a bumble bee .
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An hour later he was in Chesney, having seen no animate thing but two bumble bees and a rook.
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Once a smaller one buzzed by like a transparent bumble bee , below him but still above the tallest buildings.
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A review of the honey bees is flanked by a fascinating description of the less well known bumble bees.
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Concern is expressed that agricultural methods and the widespread introductions of honey bees are reducing the populations of bumble bees.
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The chemicals upset the balance of the environment and killed not only the whitefly but also other wildlife including the bumble bee .
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The absence of the bumble bee meant that pollination had to be carried out artificially, using an electronic vibrating rod.
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This was labour intensive, more expensive and less effective than employing the bumble bee .
honey
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My first flight was in cessna called a honey bee , it was with a man called Andy who my dad knows.
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Most of the journeys made by honey bees or Cataglyphis are so brief that its movement is not of great significance.
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A review of the honey bees is flanked by a fascinating description of the less well known bumble bees.
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Concern is expressed that agricultural methods and the widespread introductions of honey bees are reducing the populations of bumble bees.
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There are among honey bees three reported examples that appear at first glance to qualify as cognitive trial-and-error.
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These flowers possess spring-loaded anthers that give honey bees a rough blow when they enter.
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In the face of potential starvation, honey bees finally begin foraging on alfalfa, but they learn to avoid being clubbed.
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The hexagonal cells, however, are built with a precision and uniformity that fully matches those of the honey bee .
killer
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Thus the myth of the killer bee was born.
sting
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For a human being a wasp or bee sting is always painful, but not necessarily serious.
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Fire officials said bee stings and poison oak were the most serious problems.
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That is only a fraction of the numbers killed by bee stings .
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For most people, the reaction to a bee sting is swelling and pain.
worker
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The organism of a hive yields integration for its community of worker bees , drones, pollen and brood.
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But the majority of the maquila force are worker bees .
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A worker bee also uses the sun in a similar way.
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You need walls... a place to go and be a worker bee .
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The hundreds of worker bees who were also driven out got the minimum.
■ VERB
keep
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So one could just retire to the country and keep bees , eh?
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He makes no blot who has no ink, Nor gathers honey who keeps no bees .
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She kept bees in Jane's orchard and would appear regularly swathed in black net with her eleven-year-old son in tow.
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The heather would have kept the bees going throughout the winter.
spell
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He even remembered the gruesome details of the spelling bee he lost in front of the entire seventh grade.
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Precontest administrative duties were shared by several county superintendents in pre tion for the state spelling bee .
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Spider then is able to confront his fear and on the big night, he takes second place in the spelling bee .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
queen bee
the birds and the bees
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For a lesson in the birds and the bees, turn to page 12.
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She was to be minister of love, chief of the Department of the Birds and the Bees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A review of the honey bees is flanked by a fascinating description of the less well known bumble bees.
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And they are at far higher risk of death from bees, wasps and snakes than from sharks.
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Blame it on the lightless conspiracy of bee life, a secret guarded by ten thousand fanatically loyal, armed soldiers.
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In 1994, according to our census, they made up 15 percent of the bee population.
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In the spring these plants would unfurl tiny pink bell-like flowers that attract bees.
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It was like bees round a honey pot.
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She trailed around the room picking up beer bottles, looking oddly like a bee with broken wings.
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The dance of the bees has a repertoire of wiggles and tilts and speeds.