BEFORE

AFTER

👀 BEFORE AND AFTER – A NEW 2019 DESIGN! 👀

🐝I’m a BEEliever 🐝– This is a tricolored bumblebee AKA Orange Belted bumblebee on a 🌼 gaillardia bloom a.k.a blanket flower 🌼. This is a great flower for our pollinators and nectar lovers! I always have something on their lovely blooms. I love all bees but the orange belted is my favorite. They are so friendly and docile and I adore his colors. This is the third design in a set of four designs I have created of our buzzing pollinating friends!

🐝 Bee Meaning and Symbolism – Many cultures honor the bee and it is noted in many ancient cultures and mythologies. My favorite of course is the ancient Greek Goddess of Bees, Melissa. Melissa means honeybee in Greek and she also cared for the infant Zeus. She was turned into a beautiful bee by Zeus.

🐝 In ancient Egypt bees were a symbol of royalty and supremacy.

🐝 蜜蜂 The Chinese consider designs of a bee sitting on a flower to represent courtship, marriage and love. They also these design to represent a maiden’s purity and fertility due to the bee’s pollination ability. The Chinese culture also considers the bee to represent cheerfulness, fortuity, affluence and harmony.

🐝 The overall symbolism of bees include: Love, Life, Order, Development, Knowledge, Beauty, Family, Happiness, Mystery, Sweetness, Nurturing, Community, Efficiency and Communication.

🌼 The gaillardia a.k.a blanket flower symbolizes humility, charm, happiness and joy!

🌼 There is also an Indian legend about the how the gaillardia was nicknamed the blanket flower. Two tribes were at war. The chief’s wife started weaving a blanket in orange and yellow patterns. It represented her prayer to the great spirits to keep her husband safe. One fateful day the chief’s daughter was playing in the woods and she had gone astray and could not find her way home. As the sun set it grew colder and colder and the little girl prayed to the Great Spirit to send her a blanket to keep her warm. She drifted into a sound slumber. Dawn arrived and as she woke up her father discovered her on his way home from war covered in these bright cheerful beautiful flowers. From that point on the Chief called these blanket flowers.🌼

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