What is the bird's and the bee's?

I think the sex talk is called 'the birds and the bees' because of their major role in reprodcution. Flowers need bees to spread the pollen around, birds eat fruit and poop the seeds all over the place to grow more trees. Plus bees are in a colony system where there's a queen, and birds mate and have one mommy and one daddy. It all comes back to reproduction and I think talking about 'the birds and the bees' became a nice G-rated way to say "we're gonna talk about sex". This is all just my personal theory as I have no real basis for any of it.

Lol well it looks like awholenewsetofrules dominated that question, but my guess was Sex- and because you do it until the morning when the birds+bees are out? =P

btw: do bees ever sleep? weird to think about

Its a sex talk about how you should but careful if you do it etc. But I'm not really sure why they call it that though.

"The birds and the bees" is a nice clean way of saying dating and sex. Most often it's used in reference to explaining sex & babies to children. For example "I have to talk to my daughter about the birds and the bees." It's often used when people don't want to talk about what they are actually talking about. Like when people are afraid to talk openly about sex.

It's from a pamphlet written by a naturalist in which he explained how nature works at a level children could understand. It's about the natural instinct to build a home and care for your young.