> Gloranthans don't actually hav a category of "insects."* They generally
> would have no reason to consider bees, dragonflies and butterflies to be
> darkness creatures.
>
Dragonflies, at least, spend the vast majority of their lives as an "obvious" darkness/water creature... a ravenous crawling predator lurking in the murky depths of still water. Eventually, they transform themselves to conquor the air and sky. Sun worshippers might say they become "enlightened" and are given the gift of flight and keen eyesight by friendly sky powers to help "clear the air." Their definatley originate in the darkness though.
Most caterpillars also have a pretty comfortable darkness "look and feel", and the colorful cute and fuzzy ("sunny") ones mostly become moths, whose elemental confusion ties in nicely with their lunar association.
I can certainly imagine a myth explaining how Honey Bees are "actually" light creatures, who have selflessly taken on a darkness form, to fulfill the job of dredging the foul darkness for whatever shreds of goodness can be found there. They then gather and refine that goodness into pure golden honey, fit for the emperor himself.
There's clearly SOMETHING "wrong" with bees from a troll standpoint, or the Bee Tribe of Uz wouldn't be so darn wierd )
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