Why is it called "Birds and Bee's"? Birds and Bees have NOTHING to do with sex!?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_and_the_bees

Maybe it's from Coleridge or Cole Porter, who knows?

Answer 2

These are two things i found! Interesting question!

Dear Cecil:

I recently celebrated my thirtieth birthday, and am in the intial stages of what I hope will be a serious and long lasting relationship. My dilemma is this: I've never been told the story of "the birds and the bees." I've travelled around the world and am not an inexperienced person, but this missing piece of information may be the reason I haven't, up till now, been truly successful in love. Please give me the straight dope on the origin of the phrase "the birds and the bees" and the details of the act(s) as it (or they) relate to man. --M. Harris, Washington, D.C.

Dear M.:

Don't feel bad. Nobody explained it to me, either, and I must say I made quite an impression that first night with the honey and feathers. But now I'm hip. The significance of the birds and bees isn't what they do, it's simply that they do it, "it," naturally, being a tussle in the tumbleweeds, or wherever it is that the lower orders engage in sex. As such it's the perfect euphemism for a culture so prudish that even publishers of girlie magazines used to airbrush out the pubic hair.

Where exactly "the birds and the bees" originated nobody knows, but word sleuths William and Mary Morris hint that it may have been inspired by words like these from the poet Samuel Coleridge: "All nature seems at work ... The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing ... and I the while, the sole unbusy thing, not honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing." Making honey, pairing ... yes, we can definitely tell what Sam had on his mind.

The Morrises offer the theory that schools in years past taught about sex by "telling how birds do it and how bees do it and trusting that the youngsters would get the message by indirection." Right. Luckily for the perpetuation of the species, there's always been Louie in the schoolyard to explain how things really worked






The phrase the birds and the bees (sometimes further extended to birds, bees and butterflies) has been common in the language for at least the last couple of centuries to refer in a generalised way to the natural world (do journalists still refer dismissively to the natural-history column in their journals as “the birds-and-bees department”?). The alliteration has undoubtedly helped to make it a satisfactory formulaic expression.

Fumbling attempts to explain the facts of life to children often involved analogies with birds laying eggs and bees pollinating flowers. So it’s easy to see how the expression could have turned into a sarcastic reference to such attempts.

It’s so common these days as to be a cliché. To round off this explanation, I wanted to include a note to say how old it is. This is where I got stuck. You might be astonished to discover how few reference books even mention this phrase; not one of my extensive collection of works on euphemisms and suchlike expressions includes it. Because it’s so common in its literal sense, finding euphemistic instances in digital archives involves combing through masses of irrelevant material.

If you know your song lyrics, you may have in mind that mildly risqué Cole Porter number from 1928, Let’s Do It, which has the lines “Birds do it, bees do it / Even educated fleas do it / Let’s do it, let’s fall in love”. That’s certainly got the idea. However, the first explicit use of the phrase I know of is in a newspaper, the Freeport Journal Standard, dated 1939: “A Frenchman was born sophisticated: he knows about the birds and the bees. In consequence, French films are made on a basis of artistic understanding that does not hamper the story.” I might be out by a decade or two, or even a century or two, though my impression is that it’s relatively modern.

Answer 3

The bird is all cute like 'oh im so pretty" Then the bee is all mean like "im going to fck you"

Answer 4

i knew, my science teacher explained it once in 6th grade.
something to do with birds like carrying seeds = sperm
lol i wasnt paying attention.

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_birds_and_the_bees

Comes from a song..

'Birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love'

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Answer 6

OMGOSH I HAVE ALLWWAAAYS WONDERED ABOUT THAT!!!
HAHA

Answer 7

Idk.