Lies about crossbreeding of insects — Mythoi

Motif

Lies about crossbreeding of insects.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lies about insects. · view the constellation · filed as X1280.1

Filed across the traditions

U.S. *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Lies about insects.

1 finer motif beneath it

Bumblebees imported to rout mosquitoes; the two insects crossbreed and have stingers on both ends

Filed beside it

Lies about ferocious insects Lies about bees Lies about fleas Remarkable mosquitoes Lie: extraordinary fireflies Lies about grasshoppers Lies about bedbugs Lies about flies Lies about gnats Lies about lice

Carried in tale types

The Great Insect · ATU 1960M 2 recorded variants

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