How to Use honeybee in a Sentence

honeybee

noun
  • Beck also keeps three goats and a few colonies of honeybees.
    — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • There are three types of honeybees — queen, drone and worker.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2023
  • How do honeybees decide which hole or hollow to start a new home in?
    — Jeremy Engle, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Kids have so much fun pointing to the honeybees and to all of the broccoli.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Their stingers are longer than that of a honeybee and their venom is more toxic.
    — David Williams, CNN, 3 Oct. 2020
  • In an instant, more honeybees would pile on and pin the hornet down.
    — National Geographic, 8 Feb. 2020
  • And in some ways, the destruction of the honeybee was worth it, too.
    — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2026
  • The next step was to build the ram itself—with the help of none other than the humble honeybee.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2023
  • If the honeybee can pull it off, maybe humans can simplify things too.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Like a honeybee leaving its hive for the first time, the drone begins with a short learning flight around its home.
    — New Atlas, 8 June 2026
  • Their stingers deliver as much venom as a snake or seven times that of a honeybee.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Dive into the science of how honeybees produce wax and learn about its role inside the hive.
    — Jake Richardson, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
  • In reality, drone honeybees do nothing but eat and wait to mate with a queen.
    — The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • European honeybees and native bees make good use of the blooms as a nectar source.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • There's not much a home gardener can do to stem the loss of commercial honeybee hives.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 24 June 2017
  • Melittin is the main compound found in honeybee venom.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The goal was to develop a backup bee for the struggling honeybee.
    — Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2018
  • The name is a nod to the street where the Larson family lives and tends to a honeybee hive in their yard.
    — Lynn Petrak, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • This requires the work of bees—both native species and the domestic honeybee.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The couple plans to add honeybees, a vineyard and agritourism with the help of their son, Jess.
    — William Thornton, AL.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The hotel chain plays host to 40 honeybee apiaries and wild bee hotels around the world.
    — Bailey Bischoff, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The team found that wing-slapping was the honeybees’ most common strategy against ants.
    — Gennaro Tomma, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
  • Some nest in the ground, some in wood, some in brick siding, and some build traditional hives, like the honeybee.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The females are capable of stinging, but lack the instinct to guard their nest like a honeybee.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The females are capable of stinging, but lack the instinct to guard their nests like a honeybee does.
    — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2021
  • My wife and daughter are going to get a smoothie called the honeybee, which is very sweet and delicious.
    — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Choose from all sorts of animals, including honeybee, owl, and koi fish.
    — Francesca Krempa, StyleCaster, 25 Nov. 2025
  • No large-scale study has found any link between glyphosate and the decline of the honeybee population.
    — Zoe Szathmary, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
  • The queen is also typically the mother of all or mostly all of the honeybees in the hive.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The opossum gives birth to as many as 20 babies, initially about the size of a honeybee.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021

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