Austėja looks like a bee or a bee-like girl dressed in a yellow-brown striped skirt.
She cares for the bees, blossoming plants and bee-ceepers.
Austėja looks like a bee or a bee-like girl dressed in a yellow-brown striped skirt.
She cares for the bees, blossoming plants and bee-ceepers.
Austėja guards holes in the trees, that are occupied by bees.
She also looks after blossoming meadows and parks, cares for the bees so they can find buds full of nectar.
Besides that, she ensures that bees find their way home safely and dispose og the honney in the hive.
Bee-ceepers loved her and adored her.
In august every year when the first harvest was ripe and the first honey served, they would hold a fest in honour of Austėja. They would thank her for the blossoms hard working bees and offer her fresh honey and mead.