European orchid whose flowers resemble bumble bees in shape and color.

欧洲的一种兰，花的形状和颜色像蜜蜂。

Nosema bombi is a bee pathogen that has also afflicted European bumble bees.

微孢子虫是一种蜂类病原体，它也困扰欧洲的大黄蜂。

Bumble bees also make honey but it is used to feed the colony, not farmed for human consumption.

大黄蜂虽然也酿蜜，但是只用作维系种群，不养来产蜜供人类食用。

Sugar and pollen play an important role in the development and reproduction of bumble bees.

糖和花粉对熊蜂的生长发育和繁殖起重要作用。

Bumble bees also make honey, but it is used to feed the colony, not farmed for human consumption.

大黄蜂虽然也酿蜜，但是只用作维系种群，不养来产蜜供人类食用。

This makes them more efficient than swallowtail butterflies (3.6), fruit flies (1.8) and bumble bees (2.5).

他比凤蝶（3.6），果蝇（1.8）及大黄蜂（2.5）更为高效。

NPR's Adam Cole, reports bumble bees can use electric fields to remember where to find nectar-rich flowers.

据npr新闻的亚当·科尔报道，研究报告表明，蜜蜂可以使用电场记忆，找到有大量花蜜的地方。

"Ido not like bumble bees . They are all over bristles, " said Mr. Jackson, wiping his mouth with his coat-sleeve.

“我不喜欢大黄蜂。他们浑身都是毛茬子。”杰克逊先生一边说着，一边用大衣袖子擦着嘴巴。

Spying could be done, too, with the tiny "drones" he invented, based on bumble bees, with a six-inch (15cm) wingspan and video cameras inside them.

他还以翁翁叫的蜜蜂为原型发明了微型“雄峰”飞行器，它同样能实施监视任务。这个飞行器只有六英寸翼展(15cm)，还内置了一个摄象机。

He added that the activity levels of queen bumble bees and the lifespan of flowers may be highly sensitive to air temperatures, sunshine, precipitation and wind.

他又补充说，蜂王的活跃程度与花的寿命可能对气温，日照，降水和风的影响非常敏感。

This is rather like aeronautics experts insisting that bumble bees cannot fly, while forgetting it is their job to find out just exactly how they manage to fly so well.

这就像航空学专家坚称大黄蜂飞不起来一样，他们忘记了自己的任务是研究大黄蜂到底是如何飞得那么好的。

In the garden, life returned with a threatening buzz: bees, both bumble and honey, are already at their work, waking up and getting stuck into the flowers as if they hadn't a minute to lose.

伴随着吓人的嗡嗡声，花园里重现生机：黄蜂和蜜蜂都已经在工作，精神抖擞，抓紧时间在花儿上劳作，就好像一分钟也不能耽搁。

Overhead, bumble-bees flew hither and thither in the thickening light, their drone coming and going like the sound of a gong.

天空里嗡蜂也在渐渐强烈的阳光里到外飞动，它们的嗡嗡时闻时寂，仿佛是打锣的声音。