A bumblebee is a flying insect of the genus Bombus.
Bumblebee or bumble bee may also refer to:
Biology
Fish Bumblebee catfish, several species Bumblebee cichlid, Pseudotropheus crabro Bumblebee goby, species of the genus Brachygobius Bumblebee grouper or giant grouper
Other organisms Bumblebee orchid (Ophrys bombyliflora) Bumblebee shrimp (Caridina trifasciata) Striped bumblebee shrimp (Gnathophyllum americanum) Bumblebee bat or Kitti's hog-nosed bat Bumblebee hummingbird Bumblebee poison frog or yellow-banded poison dart frog Bumble bee scarab beetle
Music
Songs "Flight of the Bumblebee", an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900 "Bumble Bee", a song originally recorded by Memphis Minnie in 1929 "Bumble Bee" (LaVern Baker song), a 1960 song made popular by The Searchers in 1965 (UK #1 EP) "Bumblebee", a song by Ween on the 1990 album GodWeenSatan: The Oneness "Bumble Bee", a 1999 song by Desirée Sparre-Enger (Bambee) "Bumble Bees", a 2000 song by Aqua "Bumblebeee", a 2014 song by Kasabian "Bumblebees", a 2015 song by Bloodhound Gang "Bumble Bee" (Zedd and Botnek song), a 2015 song by DJ Zedda "Bumblebee", a song by Smokepurpp and Murda Beatz from the 2018 mixtape Bless Yo Trap "Bumblebee" (Lead song), 2018 single by Japanese hip-hop group Lead "Bumblebee", a song by ABBA on the 2021 album Voyage
Other uses in music Bumblebee Records, which released the first solo album by Kenji Ueda "Bumble bee", a Frankenstrat guitar Hummel (instrument) ("bumble bee") an old Swedish stringed instrument which produces a droning sound
Transportation ADI Bumble Bee, an American gyrocopter Bumble-Bee (livery), an informal name for the black and yellow New Zealand railway locomotive livery Bumble Bee II, the world's smallest piloted airplane Freewind Bumble B, a French gyrocopter Bumblebee Edition, an edition of the Saturn S-Series Bumblebee Limited Edition, an edition of the Porsche 914 Humlebien ("Bumblebee"), the nickname for the Type C Nimbus motorcycle Nelson Bumblebee, a glider produced by Nelson Aircraft
Military
Operations Operation Bumblebee, a top secret US Navy program designed to develop rockets and ramjets at the end of World War II Operation Teardrop, originally code-named "Operation Bumblebee", a US Navy operation of World War II Operation Bumblebee, in the Korean War in by the 3rd Battalion 7th Marines
Vehicles and weapons Hummel (vehicle) ("Bumble Bee"), a self-propelled artillery gun used by the German Wehrmacht during World War II Bumbar ("Bumble Bee"), a short-range portable anti-tank missile system developed and produced by Serbia RPO-A Shmel (Bumblebee), a man-portable rocket launcher produced and exported by Russia and the former Soviet Union Beriev A-50 ("bumble bee" in Russian), an AWACS aircraft
People Bumble Bee Slim (1905–1968), American blues singer Sergei Chernyshev, Russian breakdancer (professional nickname "Bumblebee")
Places Bumble Bee, Arizona, a US ghost town Bumblebee, California, near Bumblebee Creek, US
Fiction Bumblebee (Transformers), a car robot superhero in the American Transformers robot superhero franchise Bumblebee (film), 2018, based on the Transformers character Bumblebee (DC Comics), a superheroine Bumblebee Man, a character from The Simpsons
Other uses Bumble Bee Foods, a commercial brand of canned fish and other food products Bumblebee models, in mathematical physics, field theories with spontaneous Lorentz violation Drozd BB rifle or "bumblebee", marked as such for its color scheme and sound Operation Bumblebee (UK), an anti-burglary campaign undertaken by London's Metropolitan Police Bumble Bee, a brightly coloured children's ride at Marineland "Bumble Bee 1", the nickname for the first C2-class Melbourne tram BumbleBee, a plastic ball-bearing transaxle yo-yo produced by Duncan Toys Company Bumblebee Project, an Nvidia Optimus implementation for Linux
See also
Bhrngadutam ("The bumblebee messenger"), a Sanskrit minor poem Bumble (disambiguation) Bumblebeewolf, a species of bee-hunting wasp Buhmble Bee, a member of Nemesis (rap crew) Dumbledor (disambiguation) (an obsolete word for bumblebee) Gita milindam ("Song of the Bumblebee") in Sanskrit, first published in 1999