Why do they call it the birds and the bees if they cannot produce with each other?

Some nonsense about the stinger of a bee being a phallous sticking itself in a flower. I am not sure about the bird part... Wikipedia had this to add:





';The phrase is said to have its origins in a folk tale, whose exact source is unknown, that reportedly became popular in Southern Africa (probably Namibia) around the turn of the last century. It tells the story of a colony of bee-eater (Merops pusillus) birds laying their eggs after a meal of honeybees.';Why do they call it the birds and the bees if they cannot produce with each other?
Back when this saying began, people couldn't use the sex word. So they used a metaphor because it was considered more polite. Heck, now they tell kindergarten kids how to do it, what it is called, and they use correct anatomy as well.


Nothing forbidden anymore, Eve took the apple, Adam didn't have to eat it.Why do they call it the birds and the bees if they cannot produce with each other?
Young children are observant and curious, yet they don't need to know the nitty gritty details, don't have the background (at say, three or four) to understand, and generally aren't that interested. Teaching is best done by using similar examples, in this case teaching the concept of reproduction. Children only see children and adults, they can't observe how this changes over time. But the generation cycle in birds is obvious because it takes place over a summer, and most children find birds interesting. Bees and flowers are used to illustrate fertilization, again as something visible with a short-term outcome that children can understand. Both also illustrate that ';it takes two';, and you tell them that that's how babies are made, grow up and become parents themselves.





Eventually, they need to know the nitty-gritty. This talk about sex is euphemistically referred to as the ';birds and the bees'; talk, but has nothing to do with the actual ';birds and the bees'; talk.





Real encyclopedias hire people with advanced degrees in the subjects that they are writing about. Wikipedia is written by amateurs, so be careful to verify what you take out of it. I could write an article twice as long as that Wikipedia article telling you what's wrong with it.
Because you start with ';Hey, kid, do you know what a bee does with his stinger at night?'; ';He puts it in his honey.';





If it doesn't get a laugh, things need to be explained.


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Perhaps because a bird can do a bird and a bee can do a bee.
Quoted from Wikipedia:





';The birds and the bees'; (sometimes expanded to ';the birds, the bees and the butterflies'; or ';the birds, the bees, the flowers, and the trees';) is a commonly used phrase (which has become somewhat of a clich茅) which refers to clumsy or inept attempts at sex education for children or adolescents, such as the use of euphemisms or symbols to describe sexual behaviour or body parts. A discussion about ';the birds and the bees'; may therefore involve references to nature (ie. animals and plants) without actually describing human biology or providing any useful insight.





The phrase is said to have its origins in a folk tale, whose exact source is unknown, that reportedly became popular in Southern Africa (probably Namibia) around the turn of the last century. It tells the story of a colony of bee-eater (Merops pusillus) birds laying their eggs after a meal of honeybees.





Or possibly derived from Kamadeva, Hindu god of love that is accompanied by a selection of Birds and Bees at all times.





The phrase was also part of a hit song in the early 1960s.