solitary bee
noun
any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
Origin of solitary bee
1First recorded in 1820–30
- Compare social bee.
Words Nearby solitary bee
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How to use solitary bee in a sentence
Buzzing around me, as if seeking some companionship on that lonely bluff, was a solitary bee.
The Awakening of the Desert | Julius C. BirgeHe once saw with delight "a solitary bee nipping a leaf round till it exactly fitted the front of a hole."
Robert Browning | C. H. HerfordTheir eyes fell, at the same moment, upon one solitary bee that was standing upon the inside of the flower-pot.
Rollo's Experiments | Jacob AbbottOne kind of solitary bee, for example, builds in empty snail-shells, and another in small hollows like keyholes.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural History | Theodore WoodThe cells are provisioned like those of any other solitary bee with pollen, etc., and the egg is laid upon it.
Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants | Edward Saunders
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