bumblebee

Peter Brownの'The Wild Robot'を読み終わりましたが、この本の巻末に 'The Wild Robot' の続編 'The Wild Robot Escapes' のpreviewが掲載されていましたが、その一部を引用します。

"This is a dairy farm," said Mr. Shareef, "so these cows are the queens around here. Your whole world now revolves around them. Understand?"
"I understand," said Roz as she stared at a young calf who was staring right back at her.
They rolled past the herd of cows, past clumps of wildflowers, past a quiet pond, past birds and field mice and bumblebees. The driveway cut through a row of trees on its way out to the crop fields, which were flat and square and covered with bright green sprouts.

"bumblebee" は書物でも時々見かけるハチの名前ですが、どんなハチでしょう？　辞書を見ます。

・Collins Dictionary>: A bumblebee is a large hairy bee.: Meadows are abuzz as bumblebees.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a large bee that is covered with short hairs and makes a loud noise when it flies: The protruding stigma of long-styled flowers is much more likely to contact other parts of bumblebee bodies.
・Vocabulary.com: A bumblebee is a large, flying insect that pollenates flowers. Bumblebees are fatter and fuzzier than honeybees. They may look cute, but they can still sting you.
A bumblebee is a completely different species than a honeybee, though it does make honey. Bumblebees produce honey in much smaller quantities, and it isn't harvested and eaten by people. Bumblebees also live in smaller groups, of up to four hundred bees, compared to honeybees' hives that have as many as 60,000 bees. In some places, they're called humblebees, from the Middle English humbul-be, which echoes the "hum" of a bee.

引用した最初の二つの辞書には "bumblebee" の写真も掲載されています。