a bike of bees
A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- ants, hornets, wasps
Subject · Animals → Insects & arachnids
Bees
A group of bees can be called: bike · cast · cluster · colony · drift · erst · grist · hive · nest · rabble · stand · swarm
- Collective nouns
- 12
- Category
- Animals
- Subcategory
- Insects & arachnids
- High confidence
- 12
- Book of St Albans
- 1
Collective nouns for bees
a cast of bees
- Context
- a second swarm
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- actors, crabs, falcons, hawks
a cluster of bees
- Context
- of workers around the queen
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- antelopes, cats, churls, grapes, nuts, spiders
- Also spelled
- Clustre (1486)
a colony of bees
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- ants, badgers, bats, beavers, beetles, penguins, chinchillas, mice, mustelids, rats +2 more
a drift of bees
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- birds, cattle, fishers, goats, horses, pigs, sheep
- Also spelled
- Dryfte (1486)
an erst of bees
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
a grist of bees
A group of bees.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited, wiktionary-attested
a hive of bees
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- wasps
a nest of bees
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- ants, hornets, pheasants, rabbits, snakes, mice, termites, wasps
a rabble of bees
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- butterflies, gnats
a stand of bees
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- flamingos, weapons
a swarm of bees
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- historical-source, wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- ants, beetles, bugs, butterflies, eels, flies, gnats, grasshoppers, moths, hornets +5 more
- Also spelled
- Swarme (1486)