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    humans' relationship with bees—particularly honey bees—has ranged from encounters with wild bees (both prehistorically and in the present day) to keeping...
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    including mason bees, carpenter bees, leafcutter bees, and sweat bees – are solitary. Bees are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat...
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  • Mythology is a box set compilation of recordings by the Gibb brothers, mostly performed as the Bee Gees, arranged in a four disc set each highlighting...
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    Aristaeus (category Religion in ancient Boeotia)
    goddesses of bees Bee (mythology), Bees in mythology USS Aristaeus (ARB-1) Fu Xi, an important culture hero from the Chinese mythology who bears some...
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    study conducted in the UK found moths dusted with pollen from 47 different plant species, including seven species largely ignored by bees. Some studies...
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    Flea circus (category Insects in culture)
    A flea circus is a circus sideshow attraction in which fleas are attached (or appear to be attached) to miniature carts and other items, and encouraged...
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    The Bee Gees were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful in popular music in the...
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  • and taught the use of honey, and from whom bees were believed to have received their name, μέλισσαι. Bees seem to have been the symbol of nymphs, whence...
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    Deathwatch beetle (category Insects in culture)
    and Clothilla pulsatoria (in Greek mythology Atropos and Clotho were two of the three moirai (Fates) associated with death). In 1838 Henry David Thoreau...
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  • Andy Gibb (category English expatriates in Australia)
    of VH1's series, Behind the Music, and released on the Bee Gees' Mythology 4-disc box set in November 2010. The songs are co-written by Gibb with his...
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    Apitherapy (redirect from Bee Venom Therapy)
    apitherapy treatments. References to possible medical properties of bee products can be found in Chinese, Korean, Russian, Egyptian and Greek traditional medicine...
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    Eros (redirect from Eros (mythology))
    anecdote a little in his Idylls (Idyll XIX). Little Eros is stung by bees when he attempts to steal honey from their beehive. The bees pierce all of his...
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    body before it died. The seed grew to become the first human. In Egyptian mythology, bees grew from the tears of the sun god Ra when they landed on the...
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    honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia. After bees spread...
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  • Beekeeping (redirect from Bee-keeping)
    stingless bees are also kept. Beekeepers (or apiarists) keep bees to collect honey and other products of the hive: beeswax, propolis, bee pollen, and...
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  • Mellona (category Ancient Roman mythology stubs)
    Mayan god of bees Aristaeus, ancient Greek god of bees Austėja, Lithuanian goddess of bees Bee (mythology) Bhramari, Hindu goddess of bees Bubilas, Lithuanian...
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    Bhramari (category Bees in popular culture)
    god of bees. Colel Cab -- Mayan goddess of bees. Melissa -- Ancient Greek/Minoan goddess of bees. Mellona -- Roman goddess of bees. Bee (mythology) Mind...
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  • The mythology of The X-Files, sometimes referred to as its "mytharc" by the show's staff and fans, follows the quest of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder...
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    the bees is a Western European tradition in which bees are told of important events, including deaths, births, marriages and departures and returns in the...
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    /kaɪˈriːni/ ky-REE-nee, was a figure in Greek mythology considered the etymon of the Greek colony of Cyrene in eastern Libya in North Africa. She was said to...
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    Apidae (redirect from Social bee)
    species of bees. The family includes some of the most commonly seen bees, including bumblebees and honey bees, but also includes stingless bees (also used...
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  • household god of bees, husband of Austėja Žemyna (Zemina) – goddess of land and agriculture Austėja (Austheia) – household goddess of bees, often presented...
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    mosquitoes, wasps, stingless bees and honey bees, which process it into a dark, strong honey (honeydew honey). This is highly prized in parts of Europe and Asia...
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  • Melissa (category Bees in popular culture)
    Melitta, a bee; also a hive, or house of Melitta, "[s]uch is the sense of it in this passage: and [she] was thus represented in ancient mythology, as being...
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    Greek: Ῥέα [r̥é.aː] or Ῥεία [r̥ěː.aː]) is a mother goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Titan daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky...
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    said to be a wood nymph. Pomona does not have a clear counterpart in Greek mythology, although the fruit goddess Opora can be seen as her equivalent. The...
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  • Cologne and Saint-Denis", Antiquity, 38:151 (1964), 202; for bees, cf. G. W. Elderkin, "The Bee of Artemis", The American Journal of Philology, 60:2 (1939)...
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    Proteus (redirect from Proteus (mythology))
    returning, he found in one of the carcasses a swarm of bees which he took to his apiary. The bees were never again troubled by disease. There are also legends...
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  • Latvian mythology is the collection of myths that have emerged throughout the history of Latvia, sometimes being elaborated upon by successive generations...
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  • Look up mythology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mythology is a collection of myths, or the study of them. Mythology or Mythologies may also refer...
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