Bumblebee (disambiguation) explained

A bumblebee is a flying insect of the genus Bombus.

Bumblebee or bumble bee may also refer to:

Biology

• 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

Fish

• Bumblebee catfish, several species
• Bumblebee cichlid, Pseudotropheus crabro
• Bumblebee goby, species of the genus Brachygobius
• Bumblebee grouper or giant grouper

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

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
• "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

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

• 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

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

People

• Bumble Bee Slim (1905–1968), American blues singer
• Bumblebee, the professional nickname of a Russian breakdancer Sergei Chernyshev

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), a 2018 film based on the Transformers character
• Bumblebee (DC Comics), a DC Comics 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