[Sca-cooks] weird question - honey fast???
    Laura C. Minnick 
    lcm at jeffnet.org
       
    Mon Aug 11 19:36:05 PDT 2008
    
    
  
Terry Decker wrote:
>>
> Aristotle, Pliny and Dioscorides refer to bees as animals, IIRC.  
> Their works contain a number of very solid observations and a number 
> of errors of interpretation.  The probability that Medieval Europeans 
> did not consider bees animals is rather low in my opinion.
>
> Bear
>
I found that in most of the bestiaries, bees are grouped with birds. The 
bestiaries are not known for accuracy, however. ;-)
'Lainie
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