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For species of wasp, bee, and hornet only two names could be 
obtained. Qwo-webe’ seems to be the honey-bee, while t'awe is some 
kind of wasp. Honey is called qwo-webe’dpo-, ‘bee sweet water’ 
(qwo-sebe’, bee; ’é, sweet, sweetness; po", water). 
Cushing tells how honey was obtained by Zufii girls from a kind of 
burrowing hornet.* . 
In the Zuni country there is a kind of burrowing hornet (or carpenter bee) which 
drills into adobe or mud walls and there deposits its honey. On any fine day in late 
summer one may see little groups of girls hunting the holes of these hornets along the 
garden walls. Whenever they find a number of them they provide themselves with 
gourds of water which they dash against the adobe or spurt into the holes through 
straws. The hornets, disabled by drenching, soon crawl forth and are easily killed 
or driven away, after which the girls, with little wooden or bone picks, dig out the 
honey. 
Various species of butterfly are called at San Juan poganini, at San 
Ildefonso polamimi. The latter word is peculiar in that, so far as 
we know, it is the only native Tewa word which contains the sound 
of 1. No word meaning ‘‘moth” could be obtained. The Isleta call 
butterfly par fireue. 
The introduced house-fly and many insects of similar appearance 
are called p'yiy. <A bluish fly species was distinguished as p'ufiu 
tsqywe’v?, ‘blue fly’ (puiu, fly; tsd-ywe, blue, green). Other 
Tanoan languages show cognate forms: Taos, p‘ufuend; Isleta, 
punuute; Piro (Bartlett’s vocabulary), “a-fu-ya-é, fly”; Jemez, 
Fwua. 
Species of firefly are called tsik‘owad and p‘a p‘yiiy, ‘fire fly’ (p‘a’, 
fire; p'uiiy, fly). 
Dragon-flies are called po-duyduy (po:, water; uuy, to buzz like a 
bullroarer). Cushing tells a Zuni myth of the origin of the dragon- 
fly. 
‘puy, ‘cricket,’ ‘locust.’ This is the animal which the Mexicans 
call chichara. 
Po-tsise, ‘water bird’ (po-, water; tsize, bird), is not a bird, but an 
insect. It resembles po'duyduyy in its habit of hovering over water. 
K‘owi’4y is a species of grasshopper or locust. Another species 
is distinguished as k'ow?’ty ’¢-wi't', ‘brown grasshopper’ (k‘ow?’in, 
grasshopper or locust species; ’é°, brown). 
Black-headed head lice are called p‘e. Body lice are known as 
fuwa, while bedbugs, which are still more numerous, are called ¢'7’t. 
All three terms might be carelessly applied to ‘‘lice”’ on plants, 
wood, or garbage. Notice that a small species of land snail is called 
pu pe’, ‘rabbit-brush louse’ (p‘w’, rabbit-brush; p‘e’, head louse) ; see 
page 65. 
1Cushing,F. H., Zuni Breadstuff, The Millstone, x, no. 3, March, 1885, p. 42, note. 
2 Tbid., pp. 35-38. 
