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  • We bumbled around each other like Laurel and Hardy in the gloom, fumbling for a torch we couldn't find.
  • As to Morgan: the sooner the old bumbler is put out his own (and Wales's) misery, the better. Cheryl Gillan Shines on Question Time
  • There were hatches of sedge, mayfly and olives, and the best flies were mayfly patterns, Golden Olive Bumble, and the Green Peter.
  • The professor bumbled absent-mindedly along the road.
  • A fat bee bumbled past, hardly clearing the ground.
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  • He stumbles up and bumbles through an introduction, reminding her that they've worked in the same shop for four years.
  • For the poor bumblers then go forth, believing that even though they can't understand how the world works, they can nevertheless figure out how to make it work better!
  • She somehow bumbled through four years of college.
  • A moving aerofoil generates more lift than a stationary one, and that's the principle that keeps bumblebees in the air. Times, Sunday Times
  • ***** - erection brotherfucker - homosexual bullshit - poop bumblefuck - homosexual Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • By day, Beatriz Cardenas who goes by Bea is the director of global communications for Bumble and Bumble, the salon and haircare company beloved by celebrities and fashion folk. Meredith Barnett: An eBay Wedding Story That Has Us in Awe
  • Bumblebees and the more poetic kind of astrophysicist would surely love her work. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cecil was absent -- one did not play bumble-puppy when he was there. A Room with a View
  • I'm not really interested in your bumbleberry mixes, your October 5th is recognized as National Apple Betty Day, a day to celebrate a classic southern desert. WN.com - Articles related to Metro Vancouver's popular dog breeds
  • Society became flooded with well-meaning do-gooders who bumbled about in the most hopeless manner.
  • The monsters are like bumblebees, an engineering nightmare.
  • They look enough like bumblebees to put off predators, even though they are stingless. Times, Sunday Times
  • The new president also has a backslap for the Chief Justice, who sort of bumbled the oath of office, but it looks like no hard feelings. Live Blog: The Inauguration of Barack Obama - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • That's the thing, it's all a bumbleberry pie of nothing. Stochastic Diary Entry
  • the buzz of a bumble bee
  • A review of the honey bees is flanked by a fascinating description of the less well known bumble bees.
  • In an echo of the wild rumpus scenes from "Where the Wild Things Are," we soon embark on six densely illustrated but wordless pages of roistering, in which Bumble-Ardy and his friends feed one another cake, rattle tambourines and prance about with birthday banners. Sendak's Party Animals
  • Just a few hundred thousand couch potato members of the sports channel pay-per-view community, watching because there wasn't any football yet, or darts or speedway or boxing, getting value for their subscriptions, fat on the sofa in last year's Premier League football jersey, thick as you like, tweeting Bumble to say how much they fancied Lily Allen and googling "lbw" to find out why the man in the motorbike helmet had to go home when the ball only hit him on the leg. Top stories from Times Online
  • Sarah's dad was already getting bumblebee socks for Christmas, but now he was also to receive a terracotta dunny.
  • For some species, such as bumble bees, this is the source of many of the males in the species. December 4th, 2006
  • “They cut school, they hung out... until one day they were gray-headed, no teeth in their mouth, and the young guy that everybody thought was cool was just an old bum on his way to old bumblehood.” FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
  • Bumble bees disappear inside them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Randall, with his silly-looking mullet and penchant for pyramid-scheme businesses, bumbles along with barely a clue.
  • A mayfly nymph was the most successful fly on the day and other successful flies were the Gosling and Bumble Olive.
  • She had the responsibility and honor of driving Ruth and the dolls in her own donkey-cart to the scene of action, where the school children, and some of the idlest or most good-natured of Mrs. Alwynn's friends, were even then assembling, and where Mrs. Alwynn herself was already dashing from point to point, buzzing like a large "bumble" bee. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers
  • Honeybees (the few that have so far escaped the Varroa mites), bumblebees, various flies and beetles, and the hummingbird clearwing (a moth that thinks it's a hummingbird) frequent milkweeds too.
  • My favorite transformer is still bumblebee, but I also like, Iron hide, Star scream, and so on, But where the hell was ratchet? New Transformers 2 Robots Revealed: The Twins, Arcee, Jetfire, and More! « FirstShowing.net
  • I do not care a row of pins how badly they may be written, and what form of bumble-puppy grammar and composition is employed, as long as the writer will walk along the edge of a precipice with a sheer fall of thousands of feet on one side and a sheer wall on the other; or better still crawl up an arete with a precipice on either. Travels in West Africa
  • The Flames have stumbled and bumbled around the offensive zone all series, particularly when the incomparable Iginla hasn't been on the ice.
  • A restaurant's courtyard in Oaxaca is covered with a lavender-flowering vine, attracting bumblebees and small birds.
  • The monsters are like bumblebees, an engineering nightmare.
  • Bird's-foot trefoil and bugloss, poppies and cornflowers, fumitory and fleabane – there were about 20 species all in bloom and, aside from the great surge of colour, the highlight for me was the bumblebees, mainly common carder and red-tailed bumblebees, that trafficked through the flowers all day long. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
  • I'm not really interested in your bumbleberry mixes, your WN.com - Articles related to Starbucks and TransFair USA host online dialogue about sustainability of Fair Trade coffee
  • The air and sea were alive with graceful gannets, bumble-bee-like puffins and delicate shearwaters.
  • Princess Bumblebee - yes, that threesome is great isn't it? Snapshot Monday on Wednesday - London
  • Nevertheless Owen, having hit a post in the previous game and again unnerved Argentina with his speed, was a disappointment while Heskey bumbled around.
  • Getting beyond the tropopause is a trick for us, but molecules manage to bumble their way beyond it anyway without our help. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The absence of the bumble bee meant that pollination had to be carried out artificially, using an electronic vibrating rod.
  • A bumblebee flew in the window, landed on him, and clung to his shirt, seeming to fondle the fabric with its forelegs. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • Same thing the bumbler did, why don't we here more about his abandonment of duty to run for president. DSCC links Palin to GOP Senate hopefuls
  • Aside from having people issues and a bit of a problem with alcohol no big deal, the bumblebee was a pretty chill dude. Helicopter Show
  • Indeed, it would be fairer to compare her to another insect - a busy, buzzy bumble bee.
  • Playing bumble-puppy with Minnie Beebe, niece to the rector, and aged thirteen -- an ancient and most honourable game, which consists in striking tennis-balls high into the air, so that they fall over the net and immoderately bounce; some hit Mrs. Honeychurch; others are lost. A Room with a View
  • ‘No,’ said I scratching my shoulder and looking over at Poppy, my most excellent beagle, who was trying to catch a bumble bee.
  • Along the way, you'll get a taste of pig-stomach stew, boilo a mulled cider they serve in the coal region and a slice of bumbleberry pie in an Erie Phillies Zone
  • Its principal pollinators are queens of the early-emerging bumble bee species Bombus bifarius and Bombus occidentalis.
  • The sport is used to moving at a leisurely pace, and bumbled along happily enough for 116 years before it got around to holding its first World Cup.
  • He was still living down the grief he got when, after painting our house bright yellow and black, we became known as the bumblebee family. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters
  • The world's smallest mammal, the bumblebee bat, is found exclusively in a small number of karst caves in Thailand.
  • The old man bumble along the road.
  • We bumbled around trying to figure out where to camp when a nice chap, although a bit of a wimp, invited us to join him at his campsite, which we happily did.
  • In these hot June days, meadow brown and ringlet butterflies, together with six-spot burnet moths, bumblebees and solitary bees and hoverflies, visit the pea family plants of bird's-foot trefoils, melilots, medicks, vetches and clovers. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
  • The best kind of bees is the bumble bee, which are bred for their speed and noise.
  • He bumbled around working out what he needed, so green around the gills, that one had to laugh.
  • Sleepy bumblebees are often found on the greater knapweed flowers. Times, Sunday Times
  • A bumblebee landed on another, weighing down the bloom as it forced its tongue into the nectary, before droning away across the turf. Country diary: Westgate, Weardale
  • At least with Nickels, we knew it wouldn't be mismanaged and bumbled four times before there was any traction at all. McGinn’s Budget Briefing: Gloom, Doom, and Reorganization « PubliCola
  • Plath’s father was a professor of apiology and German at Boston University and author of a book about bumblebees. Sylvia plath & anne sexton | the art & the artists of self destruction no. 1 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • The bumble bee or the blue-bottle can't compare to the eident honey bees going about their day with no fuss.
  • Everything in this country - daffodils, primroses, almond trees, bumblebees, nesting birds - is a month ahead of schedule.
  • Skippers, bumblebees and hummingbirds know which garden they prefer: They'll flock to a yard full of colorful, nectar-rich flowers.
  • European orchid whose flowers resemble bumble bees in shape and color.
  • When I was a child, I heard a preacher say that the bumblebee is a miracle because scientists didn't know how such thin legs could support such a weight, so this was proof that God made the bumblebee! Intelligent Design Criminology
  • Gerald Ford became known as a bumbler," he recalled, "and every time he hit his head on a door it became news. Firedoglake » What’s Your Definition of Leak?
  • He can perform The Flight of the Bumblebee on the tambourine, peppers Stephen Hawking with letters, and has the (nonspeaking) part of Yorick in the school production of Hamlet.
  • This biomimetic windmill sports 19-ft. wings of aluminum and carbon fiber that rotate to and fro — à la bumblebees, hummingbirds and dragonflies — to produce 1-10 kW of wind power suitable for homes and small businesses. Kevin Gardner | Inhabitat
  • She somehow bumbled through four years of college.
  • He drank freely and his game was the apotheosis of bumble-puppy. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On
  • Blackberries go often by the name of "bumblekites," from "bumble," the cry of the bittern, and kyte, a Scotch word for belly; the name bumblekite being applied, says Dr. Prior, "from the rumbling and bumbling caused in the bellies of children who eat the fruit too greedily. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • The CIA was not impressed, dismissing the would-be politician as an inept bumbler.
  • A review of the honey bees is flanked by a fascinating description of the less well known bumble bees.
  • Bumble bees disappear inside them. Times, Sunday Times
  • The old man bumble along the road.
  • His IQ was plummeting at each attempt, so to keep him from reaching zero I slowly edged by as he bumbled around on the roadside readying for another go.
  • I have a suggestion to Labour MP's. if you want to have a prayer at winning the next election, dump bumbler Brown and elect a chinese Judge as your leader.
  • rhetorical bumbleberry asking trusted surveymonkey suffix mood visuals cios propertya lwph servimundos melifermuly My (and only my) best movies of the decade: The 2007 edition
  • They closed the game with a 7-1 run as the Wizards again stumbled and bumbled in the final minutes without injured All-Stars Gilbert Arenas and Caron Butler. USATODAY.com - Basketball - Orlando vs. Washington
  • A bee bumbles along near the Alyssum in the garden, importantly busy.
  • Black flies, wasps, and bumblebees may be the bane of backyard barbecues, but their keen ability to navigate from potato chip to hamburger to bare arm is the inspiration for a host of robots that may soon be hailed as international heroes.
  • The gentleman’s notice was very soon attracted; for he had not walked three paces, when he turned angrily round, and inquired what that young cur was howling for, and why Mr. Bumble did not favour him with something which would render the series of vocular exclamations so designated, an involuntary process? Oliver Twist
  • He set himself the task of characterizing "rounded" global bureaucrats less prone to Bumbledom in his utopias.
  • After midnight he bumbles along, but listened to at other times of the day his eccentricities merely irritate.
  • Counted 200 bumblebees of 4 species in a 150-square-foot patch of fireweed.
  • It lunges at anything small enough to eat that passes in front of its nose, mostly grasshoppers, but also bumblebees, moths, and sometimes its own young.
  • On the other hand, a single specimen will usually mix well with small, sturdy, low-salinity brackish water fish including bumblebee gobies, orange chromides, and glassfish.
  • It's the sheer bumbledom of it all that is so pathetic. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • The yellow bumblebee, which used to be widespread, is now confined to the flower-rich meadows of the machair in the Hebrides.
  • There were just tons of bumblebees out there this spring, when the honeybees were in the hives because it was too cold.
  • The causes of the recent major declines in bumblebee populations are not certain, but some factors are known to be important. Biodiversity 100: actions for Europe
  • And I thought it was one area where Judge Alito was not especially well prepared and he kind of bumbled around a little bit and didn't really seem to have a-- have a very good answer on that. CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2006
  • There's nothing I know of that loses so much of size in the seasoning process as a politician -- excepting a "bumble" bee and a basswood log. Tattlings of a Retired Politician
  • I was woken up this morning at half past five by quite the most enormous bumble bee flying around the bedroom.
  • Frank P: "It's the sheer bumbledom of it all that is so pathetic. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Now when he visits my work area, he doesn't awkwardly bumble about with the mail trolley looking flustered.
  • And if, by chance, you need a guide, you might chance to follow a certain blanched-bumed bee hide ... as it bumbles, and as you stumble, from one good intention to the next. Savoir Vivre
  • Too many foreign residents are finding that paradise has a high price and that incessant bumbledom is putting a damper on enjoying their retirement.
  • This was labour intensive, more expensive and less effective than employing the bumble bee.
  • Bumble bees disappear inside them. Times, Sunday Times
  • There were more cries, and then a faint sound like a bumblebee, but lower, and growing louder as if approaching.
  • In its first year, the Buzz Project found that in fields containing margins of natural clovers and trefoils an average 1,850 bumble bees were found per hectare.
  • Seated on it, against no more romantic object than a blackened chimneystack over which some bumble creeper had been trained, they both pored over one book; both with attentive faces; Jenny with the sharper; Lizzie with the more perplexed. Our Mutual Friend
  • Both species bloom during mid summer to early fall, and are pollinated by either hummingbirds (L. cardinalis) or bumblebees (L. siphilitica).
  • It is a very sad day caused by bumbledom.
  • The bumblebee sizzed right under his straw hat.
  • Concern is expressed that agricultural methods and the widespread introductions of honey bees are reducing the populations of bumble bees.
  • In the second half, the Steelers defense resembled a swarm of bumblebees.
  • The chemicals upset the balance of the environment and killed not only the whitefly but also other wildlife including the bumble bee.
  • The bumblebee has developed complex machinery for collecting pollen.
  • In an effort to sell his friend's art, he bumbles into a debauched carnival of sex and drugs.
  • All through Coronation Street he bumbled around, not ever quite standing out.
  • The old man bumble along the road.
  • Davis chairs two committees in the Missouri State House: Special Committee on Children and Families and the Interim Committee On Poverty; yet, according to her June 4, 2009 blog, she appears to view taxpayer-funded feeding of hungry children with the kind of distain that might even make Mr. Bumble in Dicken’s Oliver Twist blush. Don't Feed The Children
  • The absence of the bumble bee meant that pollination had to be carried out artificially, using an electronic vibrating rod.
  • The harmonic radar has been used before to track the flights of bumblebees and honeybees.
  • And a large "bumble," with a sting as pitiless as the finger of scorn, just then climbed up the inside of Mr. Middlerib's nightshirt, until it got squarely between his shoulders, and then it felt for his marrow, and he said calmly: Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
  • An abundance of parasites, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, tapeworms, and the larvae of flies, wasps, and moths, are known to infect bumblebees.
  • With the smallest luck, he and Fossell ought to be more than a match for a pair of whom, if one (Miss Gabriel) was wily, the other played a game not usually distinguishable from bumble-puppy. Major Vigoureux
  • The bee bumbled too close to the snake for my comfort.
  • Orchids there use their purplish pink flowers and strong scent to dupe queen bumblebees (the orchids' main pollinators in Sweden) into thinking the plants harbor nectar.
  • Concern is expressed that agricultural methods and the widespread introductions of honey bees are reducing the populations of bumble bees.
  • We kind of bumbled around our last game in the swamp," said NCAA Football - Florida vs. Maryland
  • The bushes near Carleton Beck exuded the deep sonorous zoom sound of queen red-tailed and buff-tailed bumblebees, and all around the lee side of the thicket were the hoverflies known technically as Eristalis intricarius. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
  • The way she blow-dries is the way most hairdressers around the world blow-dry—with no direction," Ms. Michals explained while displaying the Bumble and bumble method. Blow-Dry Diplomacy
  • Once a smaller one buzzed by like a transparent bumble bee, below him but still above the tallest buildings.
  • I narrowed my eyes and listened to her bumbled answer. Court Out « A Fly in Amber
  • She waited till they had crossed Constitution with the rest of the crowd, watching the bumblebee bicyclist surge ahead, weaving his way dexterously through pedestrians, disappearing down 17th, her face tight and closed. For the Sake of the Boy
  • He got up to follow her as she bumbled around the kitchen.
  • The gentleman's notice was very soon attracted; for he had not walked three paces, when he turned angrily round, and inquired what that young cur was howling for, and why Mr. Bumble did not favour him with something which would render the series of vocular exclamations so designated, an involuntary process? Oliver Twist
  • They never really had to look back as the Falcons bumbled their way to their third straight playoff loss under coach Mike Smith and quarterback Matt Ryan . Giants Rout Falcons 24-2 in NFC Wild-Card Game
  • When you size up a bunch of aldermen or a new legislature, just remember the simple little fact of natural history that a "bumble" bee is always biggest right after it's hatched. Tattlings of a Retired Politician
  • Along with my collaborators, I have experimentally investigated that cost in bumblebees.
  • Henrika hovers like a bee over a flower, thinks Iris; then she remembers the painting of Henrika in her black-and-yellow bumblebee silks. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
  • Little daisy purple flowers waved at Shandie the bumble bee.
  • Is it any wonder that we now have an empty suit, above his pay grade bumbler in the White House? Think Progress » Flashback: McCain cited Colin Powell as justification for opposing DADT repeal.
  • They were flying around the trees and occasionally landing on the grass, apparently not to visit the clover flowers as the bumblebees do but just to wander about before flying off.
  • Everything in this country - daffodils, primroses, almond trees, bumblebees, nesting birds - is a month ahead of schedule.
  • Like Wallace, Saunders also appears in his own journalism as the bumbling, inexperienced journalist, but Saunders is more believable as a bumbler, which is to say that he is a bumbler, which is part of the charm. Joshuah Bearman: Journeys With George (Saunders), or Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers
  • I must say that it is with special shame and indignation that one protests against this notable piece of Bumbledom.
  • For me, bumble-bees and ladybirds are not the only signs of spring.
  • At Milepost 96, we stopped for coffee and bumbleberry pie apple, rhubarb and berry, $5.95 in the knotty-pine dining room of Whistlin' Jack Lodge, with a nice view of the Naches River. The Seattle Times
  • The bumblebees," she said, pointing to bumblebee topiaries made of yellow kalanchoe and black ornamental peppers. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • The two types of stinging insects are vespids (wasps, yellow jackets, hornets, and fire ants) and aphids (honeybees and bumblebees).
  • Bird's-foot trefoil and bugloss, poppies and cornflowers, fumitory and fleabane – there were about 20 species all in bloom and, aside from the great surge of colour, the highlight for me was the bumblebees, mainly common carder and red-tailed bumblebees, that trafficked through the flowers all day long. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
  • Not a few biographies of Napoleon portray him as a megalomaniac (for which there is real evidence in the later years of the empire) and even a bumbler.
  • Promoted to Headline (H4) on 6/24/09: Don't Feed The Children yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Don\'t Feed The Children'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Cynthia Davis chairs two committees in the Missouri State House: Special Committee on Children and Families and the Interim Committee On Poverty; yet, according to her June 4, 2009 blog, she appears to view taxpayer-funded feeding of hungry children with the kind of distain that might even make Mr. Bumble in Dicken\'s Oliver Twist blush.' Don't Feed The Children
  • Citizens bumble past the plywooded remains of the mall in the stilted, balance-upset walk of old people trying Walkmans for the first time, their eyes blank and deinstitutionalized. Shampoo Planet
  • Overthrows from the outfield, underthrows from the infield, easy ground balls bumbled, booted and rolled under benches and cars. Was Your Little League This Good?
  • Lucy, don't desert us -- go on playing bumble-puppy. A Room with a View
  • But for the last two days it has been the great wild bee, the humble-bee, or "bumble," as the children call him. Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
  • Soloing over the burly stomp of a song called "Hurricane Season," the young New Orleans jazzman sounded as if he had captured an epileptic bumblebee in the space between his lips and the mouthpiece of his trumpet. FreeFest: For LDC Soundgarden, a roaring (and swirling) success
  • Bush, the verbal bumbler, is the Great Communicator of the age. The Bumbling Communicator
  • The plight of the bumblebee is a matter of great concern. TreeHugger
  • No, he favors a vague and ill-defined form of collective ownership that the workers will figure out as they bumble and stumble along towards bankruptcy.
  • The phenomenon of a 'leading-edge vortex' is known to help insects to fly; this discovery helped to work out how the bumble bee manages to stay airborne. Boing Boing
  • The best kind of bees is the bumble bee, which are bred for their speed and noise.
  • He is full of inimitable wit, like the bumble bee that flew out of Milligan's shop in High Street with a rasher of bacon in its mouth.
  • The single Penstemon strictus plant observed by Williams and Thomson received bumblebee visits every few minutes.
  • Ally chewed a grass stalk and listened to the bumblebees.
  • Russian espionage of what the British call bumble and cock-up. Yahoo! News: Top Stories
  • Yet satire requires more than a cast of bumblers.
  • A little farther on the air is musky from the crowded minarets of the horse chestnut – white marble splashed with rose – where the bumble bee drones. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
  • I chose a warm open field at the end of the road: soft fluffy little white clouds, buttercups, cow parsley, bang up against a forest, and buzzing with soft bumbly bumblebees.
  • Saturn's all right for bumble-puppy," cried Freddy, joining them. A Room with a View
  • He said he hoped to address the enduring mischaracterization in films of Holmes loyal companion Dr. James Watson, as a "bumbler" which he blamed on actor Nigel Bruce's inaccurate portrayal. The Daily News Transcript Homepage RSS
  • It many ways, there are many people like the buzzard, the bat and the bumblebee.
  • In her speech, she accused Roosevelt of turning American democracy into "a dictatorial bumbledom" through his mismanagement of the war. Archive 2009-03-01
  • A bumblebee blundered by Val's head on its way to visit the morning-glories. Ralestone Luck
  • Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumble-puppy. "Now, This!"
  • These plays were essentially the santons brought to life, unfolding their misadventures as they bumbled their way to greet the baby Christ in the manger.
  • Again, a comparison with the highly social bumblebee invalidates this argument.
  • A bumblebee flew in the window, landed on him, and clung to his shirt, seeming to fondle the fabric with its forelegs. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • The mites don't affect other bee pollinators, such as bumblebees and leaf-cutting bees.
  • This is far too sparing for a bumble bee.
  • The Latin name for the bumblebee is the delicious sounding Bombus WalesOnline - Home
  • A review of the honey bees is flanked by a fascinating description of the less well known bumble bees.
  • a hill, years and miles away from literature, music, pictures, politics, existing like a harem on the gossip of the Viceroy's intentions, and depending for amusement on tennis and bumble-puppy, and then consider, you yourself, whether you are the sort of person to be unquestionably happy there. The Pool in the Desert
  • A review of the honey bees is flanked by a fascinating description of the less well known bumble bees.
  • A bumblebee flies by creating vortices: it can only fly by creating non-linear effects — there's no smooth airflow. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unlike the good-natured bumbler from the Disney cartoon, this honey-happy bear is a manipulative, abrasive, self-indulgent schemer who is clearly unapologetic in his larcenous adventure. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • In these hot June days, meadow brown and ringlet butterflies, together with six-spot burnet moths, bumblebees and solitary bees and hoverflies, visit the pea family plants of bird's-foot trefoils, melilots, medicks, vetches and clovers. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
  • A bumblebee flew in the window, landed on him, and clung to his shirt, seeming to fondle the fabric with its forelegs. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • Mature plants of A.fistulosum (‘Welsh’ onion) flower in spring, attracting myriads of bumblebees and other pollinating insects.
  • Adult sheep bot flies are hairy yellow-brown insects about the size of a bumble bee.
  • She somehow bumbled through four years of college.
  • Predation by ants may have driven the evolution of flowers with a more tubular shape, counterbalancing the pressure for flaring caused by bumblebees and explaining the less open shape in areas where ants are more numerous.
  • Enclosing bumblebees permits us to control the pollen parent, as well as the female parent.
  • The letter was, to me, the best example of Bumbledom I have come across for a long time.
  • Concern is expressed that agricultural methods and the widespread introductions of honey bees are reducing the populations of bumble bees.
  • My personal theory is that the past two bumbled and ludicrous attempts by the infamous shoe bomber (he should have put the explosives in his nose, more room there than in his sneakers) and this week's inept Nigerian bomber were never intended to bring down those planes. South Dakota car registration
  • Considering that until relatively recently there was no explanation for the flight of the humble bumblebee, this research will greatly expand our understanding of small-scale aerodynamics.
  • It sings from the bumblebee slash on a motorway truck, wild flowers massed on grass: celandine, lady's slipper, tormentil, tiny warriors pitting themselves against air fogged with chemicals…
  • The next day, (the family having been meanwhile relieved with a half – quartern loaf and a piece of cheese, left with them by Mr. Bumble himself,) Oliver and his master returned to the miserable abode; where Mr. Bumble had already arrived, accompanied by four men from the workhouse, who were to act as bearers. Oliver Twist
  • How soothing to a spirit tired of the city's din is this solitude, broken only by the singing of the birds and the drowsy droning of the bee, erroneously termed 'bumble'! In the Midst of Alarms
  • Something else making a welcome return is the bumble bee.
  • Highly recommended, other than the slight shock of discovering that that pompous idiot is still allowed to bumble away incoherently in this the 21st century.

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