One has a stinger and one incubates eggs I guess?
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HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I seriously don’t know what the hell the “Birds and the bees” even refers to beyond an olde movie cliche.
gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Sex. It refers to sex.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Bees carry pollen to the flower
Birds devote time to their eggs
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Both can be pollinators. Both can tend to their eggs/young. As a non-English native, the phrase never made sense.
zarathustrad@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s an old traditionalist saying to reinforce their norms, based on a limited understanding of both biology and society.