(southwest England) A wasp. / Apple bumblebee (Bombus pomorum) / (US) A social gathering of farmers to help gather in the apple harvest, or process the fruit.

Alternative form of apple bee

Any bee of the subfamily Colletinae, solitary bees that secrete a substance from their mouthparts to give a cellophane-like lining to their nests.

poppy bee

A leaf-cutting bee (Hoplitis papaveris) which uses pieces cut from poppy petals for the lining of its cells.

Aphomia sociella / Any wax moth / (UK) Any yellow and black hawk moth, especially genus Hemaris, that resembles a bumblebee, a bumblebee moth.

Any of the scarab beetles of the subfamily Trichiinae.

plural of bee wolf

Any of the wingless parasitic flies in the family Braulidae

Any of the solitary predatory wasps of the genus Philanthus.