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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.
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 ...
Remember that actions speak louder than words, so the more your family can do to use less the better. Make a list of climate actions and post it on the fridge, such as turning off the water while ...
Bee-eater. The bee-eaters are a group of birds in the family Meropidae, containing three genera and thirty species. Most species are found in Africa and Asia, with a few in southern Europe, Australia, and New Guinea. They are characterised by richly coloured plumage, slender bodies, and usually elongated central tail feathers.
A bumblebee (or bumble bee, bumble-bee, or humble-bee) is any of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae, one of the bee families. This genus is the only extant group in the tribe Bombini, though a few extinct related genera (e.g., Calyptapis) are known from fossils. They are found primarily in higher altitudes or latitudes in the ...
Kikau. Kikuyu white-eye. Killdeer. Kilombero weaver. Kimberley honeyeater. King bird-of-paradise. King eider. King of Saxony bird-of-paradise. King penguin.
The Birds and the Bees is split EP between Australian bands Trial Kennedy and Horsell Common, released 4 April 2006. It features three songs by each band, one of them being an acoustic cover of one of the other band's songs. Track listing. Tracks 1, 2 and 5 are recorded by Horsell Common, tracks 3, 4 and 6 are recorded by Trial Kennedy.