| 单词 | carder bee |
| 释义 | > as lemmascarder bee c. More fully carder bee. Any of several bumblebees or other bees which make a nest of shredded grass or moss above ground. Occasionally with distinguishing word. Cf. card v.1 1c.Also called carding bee.moss carder: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Bombidae (bumble-bee) > bombus muscorum carding bee1781 carder1830 moss bee1832 moss carder1853 clothier-bee1864 1830 J. Rennie Insect Archit. iv. 64 Carder-bees. The nests of the bees which Réaumur denominates carders (Bombus muscorum, Latr.), are by no means uncommon, and are well worth the study of the naturalist. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 68 There were the buff-coloured carders, that erected over their honey-jars domes of moss. 1931 Irish Naturalists' Jrnl. 3 258 The latter [bumble bees] are known as ‘carder bees’ because they ‘card’ or work the moss into the shape of a nest. 2014 Yr Ardd Summer 7/1 The common carder bee Bombus pascuorum uses its clawed feet to gain entry to the hanging flowers of comfrey. < as lemmas |
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