black bee

American  

[blak bee] / ˈblæk ˈbi /

noun

PLURAL

black bees

1. Apis mellifera mellifera, a subspecies of the western honey bee.

2. any bee that has a black or dark brown body.

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Example Sentences

The bees, known in the region as the Canary black bee, used propolis, a resinlike mixture sometimes known as bee glue, to seal themselves inside the hive, he said.

From Seattle Times

The hives were established in the castle grounds last July in a bid to boost numbers of British black bees.

From BBC

Elsewhere, she has bikers “buzzing in pocketed formations … like clouds of black bees.”

From New York Times

High on the rock above her head, black bees swarm over a huge lobelike hive.

From New York Times

The B4 project in Cornwall is a local breeding programme which aims to preserve the Cornish strain of Apis mellifera mellifera, the Cornish black bee.

From BBC