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My last honeybee design in a series of four. I love the positive energizing energy of this design and I hope you can feel it too! I call this design Good BEEhavior.

👀COMING SOON 👀– a monarch butterfly design, a yellow sulfur butterfly design, a snapdragon design, a rainbow design, and who knows after that!

🐝Good BEEhavior 🐝– as I mentioned I am fond of honeybees, for many reasons but my favorite is that my name Melissa means honeybee in Greek.

🐝This is my favorite bee the orange belted bumble bee he is feasting on an blanket flower (gaillardia) This is such a beautiful flower and I am nurturing this fall hoping it grows back this coming spring. (fingers crossed)

🐝 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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