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Examples
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A jellyfish's tentacles are loaded with small bee-like stingers that contain a toxin used to stun small water prey.
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Earlier this week, Southall was getting off a Jet Ski in the ocean when he felt "a small bee-like sting" on his arm.
Boing Boing 2009
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It turns out that various ancient peoples mistook swarms of drone flies large, bee-like hoverflies of the genus Eristalis for bee swarms.
Creationism really is a science stopper - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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THE NIGHT FACE thick stand of bushes had exploded into bloom, scarlet flowers surrounded by bee-like insects, filling the area with their scent.
do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010
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Major League Eating announced that vuvuzelas would not be allowed into Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Championship due to their "annoying, bee-like hum".
Planet Sport: Roberto Baggio returns ponytail for Italian federation 2010
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The story takes a clever turn when, at a rave party, the techno-music sampled from the bee-like aliens (or maybe mechs) has an unexpected effect on one of the hoops.
REVIEW: The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction edited by George Mann 2007
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Sweat bees and some kind of bee-like blackfly, plus the moths and butterflies that come in waves.
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The artists will collaborate with Professor Mandyam Srinivasan, head of visual and sensory neuroscience at the University of Queensland's Brain Institute - where Trish Adams is currently an artist in residence - to create artifically intelligent bee-like creatures that will be native to their virtual environment.
Australia awards AU$30,000 to Nonnatus Korhonen and Nuerone Schism to combine art with neuroscience and make virtual bees Bettina Tizzy 2008
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The trio also brought out their alter-egos, the bee-like aliens The Bubblemen, much to the delight of hardcore, knowing fans.
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I hear the wind tinkling against the wind chimes outside our front door, the territorial screech of a mocking bird, the bee-like buzzing of a hummingbird, the show-offy song of a bird I cannot name and an entire orchestra of chirps, twitters and cheeps.
Archive 2008-04-01 jek-a-go-go 2008
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