Maria Sibylla Merian, Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung, 1730, bee hive.
September is National Honey Month.
“If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.”—Dale Carnegie
“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful or honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar”—Benjamin Franklin
“Nothing but Money,Is sweeter than Honey”—Benjamin Franklin
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."—Theodore Dreiser
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."—Victor Hugo
—Elizabeth Periale
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I think Maria Sibylla Merian came way before “tiggers and Pooh”, but I’m sure if Pooh met Maria they would have much to share about bees and “the hundred acre wood”.