A cartoon illustration of a father bird and mother bee sitting down to talk to their mixed bird-bee child. Caption reads "Son, your mother and I feel you're ready to have the 'talk'."
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I've always wondered about the etymology of that phrase.
The birds and the bees are both males. They pollinate flowers, which would be the females in the analogy.
Bees have a haplo-diploid sex determinism and birds work with ZW sex chromosomes.
I don't get it either.