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Meaning. According to tradition, "the birds and the bees" is a metaphorical story sometimes told to children in an attempt to explain the mechanics and results of sexual intercourse through reference to easily observed natural events. For instance, bees carry and deposit pollen into flowers, a visible and easy-to-explain parallel to fertilization.
Build The Earth was created by YouTuber PippenFTS in March 2020 as a collaborative effort to recreate Earth in the video game Minecraft. [1] During the COVID-19 lockdowns, the server aimed to provide players with the opportunity to virtually experience and construct the world. In a YouTube video, PippenFTS called for prospective participants to ...
Era. Songwriter (s) Barry Stuart. "The Birds and the Bees" was a 1964 single release by Jewel Akens that is said to have been written by the twelve-year-old son of Era Records owner Herb Newman; the songwriting credit on the Jewel Akens recording of "The Birds and the Bees" reads Barry Stuart, which is the song's standard songwriting credit. [1]
Bees range in size from tiny stingless bee species, whose workers are less than 2 millimetres (0.08 in) long, [5] to the leafcutter bee Megachile pluto, the largest species of bee, whose females can attain a length of 39 millimetres (1.54 in). Bees feed on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source and the latter primarily for ...
Warm Sounds. Warm Sounds was an English musical duo, consisting of Denver Gerrard and Barry Husband, and later adding John Carr. [1] They are considered a one hit wonder for their hit single, "Birds and Bees", from 1967. [2] However they had an "airplay hit" follow up with "Sticks and Stones" in August 1967. [1]
Apoidea. The superfamily Apoidea is a major group within the Hymenoptera, which includes two traditionally recognized lineages, the "sphecoid" wasps, and the bees. Molecular phylogeny demonstrates that the bees arose from within the traditional "Crabronidae", so that grouping is paraphyletic, and this has led to a reclassification to produce ...
Hylaeus. (bee) Hylaeus is a large (over 500 species) and diverse cosmopolitan genus within the bee family Colletidae. This genus is also known as the yellow-faced bees or masked bees. [1][2] This genus is the only truly globally distributed colletid, occurring on all continents except Antarctica. [3]
Bees in mythology. Gold plaques embossed with winged bee goddesses, perhaps the Thriae or perhaps an older goddess, [a][2] found at Camiros, Rhodes, dated to 7th century BCE (British Museum). Bees have been featured in myth and folklore around the world. Honey and beeswax have been important resources for humans since at least the Mesolithic ...