Bumblebee (disambiguation)

A bumblebee is a flying insect of the genus Bombus.

Bumblebee may also refer to:

Non-bee species

• Bumblebee Orchid

Arthropods

• Some large Argiope (spider) species have black and yellow bands on their abdomens; the name 'bumble bee spider' has been used informally (examples: [1] [2])

Insects

• Bumble bee scarab beetles, of the family Glaphyridae
• Bumblebeewolf, a species of bee-hunting wasp (or "beewolf")
• The bumble bee mimic Volucella bombylans, a large species of hoverfly
• The archaic English colloquialism dumbledor was used for both the bumblebee and cockchafer

Shrimp

• Bumblebee shrimp, Caridina trifasciata
• Striped bumblebee shrimp, Gnathophyllum americanum

Vertebrates

• Bumblebee bat, a nickname for Kitti's Hog-nosed Bat, the world's smallest mammal
• Bumblebee Hummingbird
• Bumblebee poison frog, aka Yellow-banded poison dart frog

Fish

• Bumblebee catfish (disambiguation), several fish
• Bumblebee cichlid, Pseudotropheus crabro
• Bumblebee gobies, of the genus Brachygobius
• Bumblebee grouper, aka Giant grouper

Music

• Bumblebee Records, which released the first solo album by Kenji Ueda

Compositions

• Flight of the Bumblebee, an orchestral interlude by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov circa 1900
• A bumble bee is one of the things that tickles in the folk song Ticklish Reuben from 1900
• Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee, a song from 1912
• Bumble Boogie, a swing-jazz variation of Rimski-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, used in Disney's 1948 Melody Time
• "I'm bringin' home a baby bumblebee", a traditional American children's song sung to the tune of The Arkansas Traveler (song)
• "Bumble Bee", a 1999 song by Bambee, which was featured in the dance video games Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMix and In the Groove 2
• Gita milindam ("Song of the Bumblebee") in Sanskrit, first published in 1999
• Bumble Bees (song), a 2000 song by Aqua

Musicians

• Bumble Bee Slim, popular American Blues singer of the 1930's who recorded into the 1950s
• B. Bumble and the Stingers, an American instrumental ensemble in the early 1960s
• Buhmble Bee, a member of Nemesis (rap crew)

Instruments

• Bumblebee (aka "Charvel Hybrid VH2"), a Frankenstrat produced for Eddie Van Halen and buried with Dimebag Darrell
• Hummel (instrument) ("bumble bee") an old Swedish stringed instrument which produces a droning sound

Fiction

• The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (novel)
• The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, a movie based on the novel
• Bhrngadutam ("The bumblebee messenger"), a Sanskrit minor poem
• The ESWAT (Appleseed) use a 'Bumblebee' insertion ship

Characters

• Bumblebee (Transformers), a car robot in the American Transformers series
• Bumblebee Man, a character from The Simpsons
• Bumblebee (comics), a DC Comics superheroine

For small children

• Babbitty Bumble, a bumble bee from The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, a 1910 children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter
• Mr. Do-Bee, an oversized bumblebee that was a recurring character in the US children's television series Romper Room
• Bumblelion, a half lion, half bumble bee character from the 1985 animated series The Wuzzles
• Bumble, a fictional bee in the British children's TV series Fifi and the Flowertots

Transportation

• Humlebien ("Bumblebee"), the nickname for the Type C Nimbus (motorcycle)

Automobiles

• Bumblebee Edition of the Saturn S-Series
• Bumblebee Limited Edition of the Porsche 914
• "bumble bee stripe" on Dodge Super Bee and Dodge Ram Rumble Bee

Non-military aviation

• Bumble Bee II, world's smallest piloted airplane
• ADI Bumble Bee, an American gyrocopter
• Nelson Bumblebee, the first glider produced by Nelson Aircraft

Rail

• Bumble-Bee (livery) an informal name for the black and yellow New Zealand railway locomotive livery
• "Bumble Bee 1", the nickname for the first C2-class Melbourne tram

Military

• Hummel (vehicle) ("Bumble Bee"), a self-propelled artillery gun used by the German Wehrmacht during World War II

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 conducted in 1945 to sink German U-boats that were believed to be approaching the United States east coast armed with V-1 flying bombs
• Operation Bumblebee during the Korean War; in 1951 the 3rd Battalion 7th Marines performed the first battalion sized combat helicopter air assault in history

Portable missiles

• 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

Aviation

• Beriev A-50 ("bumble bee" in Russian), an AWACS aircraft
• One of the few surviving World War II Westland Lysander airplanes is finished in a yellow & black 'bumblebee' target tug scheme

Corporations

• Bumble Bee Foods, a commercial brand of canned fish and other food products
• Hummel International, a Denmark-based sportswear company which uses a stylized bumble bee logo, as Hummel is the German word for bumble bee.

Locations

• Bumble Bee, Arizona, a ghost town
• Bumblebee, California near Bumblebee Creek

Other

• Operation Bumblebee (UK), a London and UK police program to return stolen property
• Bumblebee models in mathematical physics, field theories with spontaneous Lorentz violation
• The "human bumblebee", a term used in The Botany of Desire
• Bumble Bee, the magazine of Lane High School in Charlottesville
• Bumble Bee, a brightly coloured children's ride at MarineLand
• BumbleBee, a plastic ball-bearing transaxle yo-yo produced by Duncan Toys Company
• The "bumblebee" Drozd BB rifle, marked as such for its color scheme and sound