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Quilaztli, aztec patron of midwives. Quilaztli is also known as Cōhuācihuātl (serpent woman), Cuāuhcihuātl (eagle woman) or Ocēlōcihuātl (jaguar woman), Pāpalōcihuātl (butterfly woman), Cihuāyāōtl (warrior woman), and Tzitzimīncihuātl (devil woman). These are individual honorary classes for women.
Augochlora azteca, the Aztec augochlora, is a species of sweat bee in the family Halictidae. [1] [2] [3] References Further reading. Ascher, J.S.; Pickering, J. (2019
Ah Muzen Cab is a Melipona bee. [1] The deity is the creator of the Earth and Universe in the fourth and final cycle of the cosmos, according to Maya peoples in the Yucatán Peninsula. Ah Muzen Cab is the protector of M. beecheii and goes to the underworld to free trapped life forces. The bee god also unifies Ah Uuk Cheknal and Uuk Taz Kab. [1]
The Kalahari Desert's San people tell of a bee that carried a mantis across a river. The exhausted bee left the mantis on a floating flower but planted a seed in the mantis's body before it died. The seed grew to become the first human. [5] In Egyptian mythology, bees grew from the tears of the sun god Ra when they landed on the desert sand. [6]
The genus Centris contains circa 250 species of large apid bees occurring in the Neotropical and Nearctic realms, from Kansas to Argentina.Most females of these bees possess adaptations for carrying floral oils rather than (or in addition to) pollen or nectar.
The Kalahari Desert's San people tell of a bee that carried a mantis across a river. The exhausted bee left the mantis on a floating flower but planted a seed in the mantis's body before it died. The seed grew to become the first human. [1] In Egyptian mythology, bees grew
Centris pallida is a species of solitary bee native to North America.It lacks an accepted common name; however, it has been called the digger bee, the desert bee, and the pallid bee due to its actions, habitat, and color respectively.
The substance is rich and high in protein. These protein-rich secretions are then stored in pot-like containers within the nest until it is time to feed the immature bees. [5] The secretions replace the role of both pollen in the bees' diet, as vulture bees lack adaptations for carrying pollen and pollen stores are absent from their nests.