social bee

noun

1. any of several bees, as the honeybees or bumblebees, that live together in communities.

Example Sentences

“The most difficult job for any candidate or party on social media is to convince people, but it’s not like mainstream media with its one-way message,” said Saadi Hamad, executive director of Social Bee, an online marketing company.

From Washington Post

For example, we need further evidence about how neonicotinoid exposure might affect social bee colonies over multiple seasons, how soil residues might affect ground-nesting bees and how neonicotinoid exposure interacts with other environmental stressors.

From Nature

“What does it take to make a social bee?” asked Gene Robinson, who is a biologist at the University of Illinois and collaborates with Kocher on another bee genome project.

From Scientific American

If all the social species show changes in the same genes or genetic pathways, meaning genes involved in the same process, it will suggest that the different varieties of social bee settled on a common strategy for creating social behavior.

From Scientific American

So far, Kocher and her collaborators have sequenced only one solitary and one social bee, making it difficult to draw definitive conclusions.

From Scientific American