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A bumblebee is a flying insect of the genus Bombus.
Bumblebee or bumble bee may also refer to:
Biology
edit- Bumblebee orchid (Ophrys bombyliflora)
- Bumblebee shrimp (Caridina trifasciata)
- Striped bumblebee shrimp (Gnathophyllum americanum)
- Bumblebee bat or Kitti's hog-nosed bat
- Bumblebee hummingbird
- Bumblebee poison frog or yellow-banded poison dart frog
- Bumble bee scarab beetle
Fish
edit- Bumblebee catfish, several species
- Bumblebee cichlid, Pseudotropheus crabro
- Bumblebee goby, species of the genus Brachygobius
- Bumblebee grouper or giant grouper
Music
edit- Bumblebee Records, which released the first solo album by Kenji Ueda
- "Bumble bee", a Frankenstrat guitar
- Hummel (instrument) ("bumble bee") an old Swedish stringed instrument which produces a droning sound
Songs
edit- "Flight of the Bumblebee", an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900
- "Bumble Bee", a song originally recorded by Memphis Minnie in 1929
- "Bumble Bee" (LaVern Baker song), a 1960 song made popular by The Searchers in 1965 (UK #1 EP)
- "Bumblebee", a song by Ween on the 1990 album GodWeenSatan: The Oneness
- "Bumble Bee", a 1999 song by Desirée Sparre-Enger (Bambee)
- "Bumble Bees", a 2000 song by Aqua
- "BumbleBeee", a 2014 song by Kasabian
- "Bumblebees", a 2015 song by Bloodhound Gang
- "Bumble Bee" (Zedd and Botnek song), a 2015 song by DJ Zedda
- "Bumblebee", a song by Smokepurpp and Murda Beatz from the 2018 mixtape Bless Yo Trap
- "Bumblebee" (Lead song), 2018 single by Japanese hip-hop group Lead
- "Bumblebee", a song by ABBA on the 2021 album Voyage
Transportation
edit- ADI Bumble Bee, an American gyrocopter
- Bumble-Bee (livery) an informal name for the black and yellow New Zealand railway locomotive livery
- Bumble Bee II, the world's smallest piloted airplane
- Freewind Bumble B, a French gyrocopter
- Bumblebee Edition, an edition of the Saturn S-Series
- Bumblebee Limited Edition, an edition of the Porsche 914
- Humlebien ("Bumblebee"), the nickname for the Type C Nimbus motorcycle
- Nelson Bumblebee, a glider produced by Nelson Aircraft
Military
edit- Hummel (vehicle) ("Bumble Bee"), a self-propelled artillery gun used by the German Wehrmacht during World War II
- Bumbar ("Bumble Bee"), a short-range portable anti-tank missile system developed and produced by Serbia
- RPO-A Shmel (Bumblebee), a man-portable rocket launcher produced and exported by Russia and the former Soviet Union
- Beriev A-50 ("bumble bee" in Russian), an AWACS aircraft
Operations
edit- Operation Bumblebee, a top secret US Navy program designed to develop rockets and ramjets at the end of World War II
- Operation Teardrop, originally code-named "Operation Bumblebee", a US Navy operation of World War II
- Operation Bumblebee, in the Korean War in by the 3rd Battalion 7th Marines
People
edit- Bumble Bee Slim (1905–1968), American blues singer
- Bumblebee, the professional nickname of a Russian breakdancer Sergei Chernyshev
Places
edit- Bumble Bee, Arizona, a US ghost town
- Bumblebee, California, near Bumblebee Creek, US
Fiction
edit- Bumblebee (Transformers), a car robot superhero in the American Transformers robot superhero franchise
- Bumblebee (film), a 2018 film based on the Transformers character
- Bumblebee (DC Comics), a DC Comics superheroine
- Bumblebee Man, a character from The Simpsons
Other uses
edit- Bumble Bee Foods, a commercial brand of canned fish and other food products
- Bumblebee models, in mathematical physics, field theories with spontaneous Lorentz violation
- Drozd BB rifle or "bumblebee", marked as such for its color scheme and sound
- Operation Bumblebee (UK), an anti-burglary campaign undertaken by London's Metropolitan Police
- Bumble Bee, a brightly coloured children's ride at Marineland
- "Bumble Bee 1", the nickname for the first C2-class Melbourne tram
- BumbleBee, a plastic ball-bearing transaxle yo-yo produced by Duncan Toys Company
- Bumblebee Project, an Nvidia Optimus implementation for Linux
See also
edit- All pages with titles containing Bumblebee
- Bhrngadutam ("The bumblebee messenger"), a Sanskrit minor poem
- Bumble (disambiguation)
- Bumblebeewolf, a species of bee-hunting wasp
- Buhmble Bee, a member of Nemesis (rap crew)
- Dumbledor (disambiguation) (an obsolete word for bumblebee)
- Gita milindam ("Song of the Bumblebee") in Sanskrit, first published in 1999