Bumblebee (disambiguation)

A bumblebee is a flying insect of the genus Bombus.

Bumblebee or bumble bee may also refer to:

Biology

 * Bumblebee orchid (Ophrys bombyliflora)
 * 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

 * "Flight of the Bumblebee", an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900
 * "Bumble Bee", a song originally recorded by Memphis Minnie in 1929
 * "Bumble Bee" (LaVern Baker song), a 1960 song made popular by The Searchers in 1965 (UK #1 EP)
 * "Bumblebee", a song by Ween on the 1990 album GodWeenSatan: The Oneness
 * "Bumble Bee", a 1999 song by Desirée Sparre-Enger (Bambee)
 * "Bumble Bees", a 2000 song by Aqua
 * "BumbleBeee", a 2014 song by Kasabian
 * "Bumblebees", a 2015 song by Bloodhound Gang
 * "Bumble Bee" (Zedd and Botnek song), a 2015 song by DJ Zedda
 * "Bumblebee", a song by Smokepurpp and Murda Beatz from the 2018 mixtape Bless Yo Trap
 * "Bumblebee" (Lead song), 2018 single by Japanese hip-hop group Lead
 * "Bumblebee", a song by ABBA on the 2021 album Voyage

Transportation

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

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

People

 * Bumble Bee Slim (1905–1968), American blues singer
 * Bumblebee, the professional nickname of a Russian breakdancer Sergei Chernyshev

Places

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

Fiction

 * Bumblebee (Transformers), a car robot superhero in the American Transformers robot superhero franchise
 * Bumblebee (film), a 2018 film based on the Transformers character
 * Bumblebee (DC Comics), a DC Comics superheroine
 * Bumblebee Man, a character from The Simpsons

Other uses

 * Bumble Bee Foods, a commercial brand of canned fish and other food products
 * Bumblebee models, in mathematical physics, field theories with spontaneous Lorentz violation
 * Drozd BB rifle or "bumblebee", marked as such for its color scheme and sound
 * Operation Bumblebee (UK), an anti-burglary campaign undertaken by London's Metropolitan Police
 * Bumble Bee, a brightly coloured children's ride at Marineland
 * "Bumble Bee 1", the nickname for the first C2-class Melbourne tram
 * BumbleBee, a plastic ball-bearing transaxle yo-yo produced by Duncan Toys Company
 * Bumblebee Project, an Nvidia Optimus implementation for Linux