social bee

American  

noun

1. any of several bees, as the honeybees or bumblebees, that live together in communities.

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Example Sentences

For example, we need further evidence about how neonicotinoid exposure might affect social bee colonies over multiple seasons, how soil residues might affect ground-nesting bees and how neonicotinoid exposure interacts with other environmental stressors.

From Nature • Apr. 21, 2015

But the most numerous and interesting of the clay artificers are the workers of a species of social bee, the Melipona fasciculata.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter

Some men have the presidential bee; I have the social bee.

From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert

How both grew older, and school-days passed, When he was a youth, and a maiden she; How often she went with Reuben Brown To the rustic dance or the social bee.

From Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving with Other Ballads and Poems by Alger, Horatio

But I'll tell you another secret first: It'll be a pleasure to me to see you, if I may, because you look at things differently and haven't a social bee.

From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert