Bumblebee (disambiguation)

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A bumblebee is a flying insect of the genus Bombus.

Bumblebee or bumble bee may also refer to:

Biology

• Bumblebee orchid
• 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

• "Bumble Bee", a song originally recorded by Memphis Minnie in 1929
• "Bumble Bee", a 1999 song by Desirée Sparre-Enger (Bambee)
• "Bumble Bees", a 2000 song by Aqua
• "Bumblebee", a song by Ween on the album GodWeenSatan: The Oneness
• "BumbleBeee", a 2014 song by Kasabian

Transportation

• ADI Bumble Bee, an American gyrocopter
• Nelson Bumblebee, a glider produced by Nelson Aircraft
• Bumble-Bee (livery) an informal name for the black and yellow New Zealand railway locomotive livery
• Humlebien ("Bumblebee"), the nickname for the Type C Nimbus motorcycle
• Bumblebee Edition, an edition of the Saturn S-Series
• Bumblebee Limited Edition, an edition of the Porsche 914
• Bumble Bee II, the world's smallest piloted airplane

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

Places

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

Fictional characters

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

Other uses

• Bumble Bee Foods, a commercial brand of canned fish and other food products
• Operation Bumblebee (UK), an anti-burglary campaign undertaken by London's Metropolitan Police
• Bumblebee models, in mathematical physics, field theories with spontaneous Lorentz violation
• Bumble Bee, a brightly coloured children's ride at Marineland
• BumbleBee, a plastic ball-bearing transaxle yo-yo produced by Duncan Toys Company
• Drozd BB rifle or "bumblebee", marked as such for its color scheme and sound
• Bumblebee Project, an Nvidia Optimus implementation for Linux

See also

• Bumblebeewolf, a species of bee-hunting wasp
• Volucella bombylans, a large species of hoverfly, a bumble bee mimic
• Hummel International, a Denmark-based sportswear company with a stylized bumble bee logo ("Bumblebee" in English)
• Buhmble Bee, a member of Nemesis (rap crew)
• B. Bumble and the Stingers, an American instrumental ensemble in the early 1960s
• Bumble Bee Slim, popular American blues singer of the 1930s who recorded into the 1950s
• "Bumble Bee 1", the nickname for the first C2-class Melbourne tram
• Bhrngadutam ("The bumblebee messenger"), a Sanskrit minor poem
• "Bumble Boogie", a swing-jazz variation of Rimski-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee", used in Disney's 1948 Melody Time
• Gita milindam ("Song of the Bumblebee") in Sanskrit, first published in 1999
• "I'm bringin' home a baby bumblebee", a traditional American children's song sung to the tune of "The Arkansas Traveler"
• "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee", a song from 1912
• Babbitty Bumble, a bumble bee from the Beatrix Potter book The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
• 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
• "Flight of the Bumblebee", an orchestral interlude by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov circa 1900
• "Bumble bee stripe" on Dodge Super Bee and Dodge Ram Rumble Bee
• Human bumblebee, a term used in The Botany of Desire
• Bumble (disambiguation)
• Dumbledor (disambiguation) (an obsolete word for bumblebee)