bee fly

English

Bee fly on a Daffodil

Alternative forms

bee-fly

Etymology

From bee +‎ fly. Compare Icelandic býfluga.

Noun

bee fly (plural bee flies)

Any of the flies in the family Bombyliidae, with adults that look like bumblebees and larvae that are parasitic on the eggs or larvae of other insects.

Translations

bee fly

Azerbaijani: vızıldayan
Bengali: ভোমরা মাছি (bhōmra machi)
Catalan: bombílid m
Dutch: wolzwever (nl) m
Esperanto: bombilio
French: bombyle (fr) f
Georgian: ბზუალას (bzualas)
German: Wollschweber m
Hungarian: pöszörlégy
Indonesian: lalat lebah
Irish: bheach-chuil f
Italian: bombilio m
Japanese: 吊虻 (ツリアブ, tsuriabu)
Korean: 재니등에 (jaenideung'e)
Kyrgyz: ызылдак (ızıldak)
Lithuanian: musė zvimbeklė f
Malay: lalat lebah
Navajo: tsísʼnági átʼéhígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: humleflue m or f

Nynorsk: humlefluge f
Polish: bjanka f
Russian: жужжа́ло (ru) n (žužžálo), муха-жужжало n (muxa-žužžalo)
Somali: dhurde
Spanish: bombílido m

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