bee moth

English

Noun

bee moth (plural bee moths)

1. Aphomia sociella.
2. Any wax moth.
3. (UK) Any yellow and black hawk moth, especially genus Hemaris, that resembles a bumblebee, a bumblebee moth.

References

• “bee moth”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “bee moth”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• bee moth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Aphomia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies