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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.
The Hitchcock film The Birds (1963) is based on a treatment of the short story of that name, as is the film Don't Look Now (1973). Of the films, du Maurier often complained that the only ones she liked were Hitchcock's Rebecca and Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now. [citation needed]
Sheet music cover, 1915. " Memories " is a popular song with music by Egbert Van Alstyne and lyrics by Gus Kahn, published in 1915. The song has become a pop standard, recorded by many people over the years. Early successes [1] were by Henry Burr who recorded the song in December 1915 [2] using the name of Harry McClaskey, and by John Barnes ...
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 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 ...
Photo: Imperial War Museums. The Canary Girls were British women who worked in munitions manufacturing trinitrotoluene (TNT) shells during the First World War (1914–1918). The nickname arose because exposure to TNT is toxic, and repeated exposure can turn the skin an orange-yellow colour reminiscent of the plumage of a canary.
Common honeybee predators include large animals such as skunks and bears, which seek the hive's honey and brood, as well as adult bees. [109] Some birds will also eat bees, (for example, bee-eaters, as do some robber flies, such as Mallophora ruficauda, which is a pest of apiculture in South America due to its habit of eating workers while they ...
Apiformes (from Latin 'apis') Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea. They are currently considered a clade, called Anthophila. [1]