bee beetle

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   European beetle; infests beehives

   Broaderclerid beetle

Questions about bee beetle

What does bee beetle mean?

bee beetle means "European beetle; infests beehives".

Is bee beetle a common word?

bee beetle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.