Here Darwin's daughter Henrietta helps him count the flowers one "humblebee," or bumblebee, can visit in a minute: 21.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

He was a visitor at every farmhouse and cottage; gossiped with the farmers and their wives; romped with their daughters; and, like that type of a vagrant bachelor, the humblebee, tolled the sweets from all the rosy lips of the country round.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference

A humblebee from the Square Garden boomed in and buzzed idly round the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint's Progress] Reference

An intoxicated humblebee broke the silence by buzzing into Biddy's fluffed-out, corn-gold hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Freelands] Reference

He assigns each child a humblebee (bumblebee) to follow and count its flower visits for one minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News] Reference

Here and there was a humblebee, gathering honey from the small purple catkins of the prostrate willows, now in full bloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Bush] Reference

Whatever happened to the humblebee, the old name for the bumblebee, asked Angus Doulton of Oxfordshire in a letter to the Guardian last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Such requisites are perfectly fulfilled by the humblebee, and we may well hazard the prophecy that the Bombus is the welcomed affinity of the flower.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

Some of us can recall the bewilderment with which his verses on the humblebee, for instance, were received, when the choice of subject caused as much wonder as the treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americanism in Literature] Reference

This command might be executed in this country, for we have the "red-hipp'd humble-bee;" and we have the thistle, and there is no more likely place to look for the humblebee in midsummer than on a thistle-blossom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference

Passy omnibus, to or fro every ten or twelve minutes; the marchand de coco with his bell; a regiment of the line with its band; a chorus of peripatetic Orphéonistes -- a swallow, a butterfly, a humblebee; a far-off balloon, oh, joy!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martian] Reference

He was a visitor at every farmhouse and cottage, gossiped with the farmers and their wives, romped with their daughters, and, like that type of a vagrant bachelor, the humblebee, tolled the sweets from all the rosy lips of the country round.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference

How the humblebee became the bumblebee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The butterfly and humblebee.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 493. Midsummer by John Townsend Trowbridge. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference