bombus

"A citizen-scientist outside Peoria actually sent in a photograph of a species of bumblebee, the rusty patched bumblebee, bombus affinis, that was thought to have gone extinct in that area, and was recovered by a private citizen with a digital camera."

Bee Expert Honored with Tyler Environmental Prize 2011

[Sidenote: Bomphiologia.] _Verborum bombus_, when small & triflyng thynges are set out wyth great gasyng wordes.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

Here, on the summit, where the stillness was absolute, unbroken by any sound, and the solitude complete, we thought ourselves beyond the region of animated life; but while we were sitting on the rock, a solitary bee (bombus terrestris, the humble bee) came winging his flight from the eastern valley, and lit on the knee of one of the men.

The Life of Kit Carson Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A. Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

With an explosion almost like a little bomb shot out of a flower; with an immense hum, almost startling, boom! the great bombus hurls himself up in the air from under foot; well named -- boom -- bombus.

Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867

Now and again humble-bees go by with a burr; and it is curious to see the largest of them all, the big bombus, hanging to the little green gooseberry blossom.

Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867

I think there were four species of wild bee at these early flowers, including the great bombus and the small prosopis with orange-yellow head.

Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867

Here, on the summit, where the stillness was absolute, unbroken by any sound, and the solitude complete, we thought ourselves beyond the region of animated life; but while we were sitting on the rock, a solitary bee (bombus terrestris, the humble bee) came winging his flight from the eastern valley, and lit on the knee of one of the men.

The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson Peters, DeWitt C 1858

Researchers at the University of Illinois are working to see if the fungus known as nosema bombus caused declines in a number of related bumblebees, including the once-common Western bumblebee, the rusty-patched bumblebee, and the yellow-banded bumblebee in the Northeast.

Oregon Local News 2010

Among these are listed the spot-winged parrotlet Touit stictoptera (VU), redfaced parrot Hapalopsittaca pyrrhops (VU), little woodstar Acestrura bombus (VU), coppery-chested jacamar Galbula pastazae (VU) and masked mountain tanager Buthraupis wetmorei (VU).

Sangay National Park, Ecuador 2008

(bombus terrestris, the humble bee) came winging his flight from the eastern valley, and lit on the knee of one of the men.

The Life of Kit Carson Ellis, Edward S 1889