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drone
stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
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Apis mellifera, honeybee
social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
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carpenter bee
large solitary bee that lays eggs in tunnels bored into wood or plant stems
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bumblebee, humblebee
robust hairy social bee of temperate regions
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cuckoo-bumblebee
a bee that is parasitic in the nests of bumblebees
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andrena, andrenid, mining bee
a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena
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Nomia melanderi, alkali bee
a common solitary bee important for pollinating alfalfa in the western United States
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leaf-cutter, leaf-cutter bee, leaf-cutting bee
bee that cuts rounded pieces from leaves and flowers to line its nest
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mason bee
any of numerous solitary bees that build nests of hardened mud and sand
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potter bee
solitary bee that builds nests of mud or pebbles cemented together and attached to a plant
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Africanized bee, Africanized honey bee, Apis mellifera adansonii, Apis mellifera scutellata, killer bee
a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas
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German bee, black bee
dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin
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Carniolan bee
greyish highly productive European honeybee that has a quiet disposition
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Italian bee
yellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits
