How did it never occur to me to ask where bee’s wax comes from?
I mean, it’s right there in the name: beeswax, its own word.
I don’t know what I was expecting exactly but it wasn’t little wax scales coming from their abdomen
i think most people at some point hear that honey is basically bee vomit, and thus passively assume wax works the same way. Plus hornets literally chew up wood and spit it out, so that’s even more reason to assume bees do something like that.
I always kind of hoped they pooped the wax out like spider’s silk.
I assumed it was like cream separating from milk, only wax from honey, but to be fair I have never really thought about it much
‘Cause it’s nunya
What’s nutya?
Nunya beeswax
Wikipedia has some actually useful units regarding it’s production.
The new wax is initially clear as glass and colorless, becoming opaque after chewing and being introduced with pollen by the hive worker bees, becoming progressively yellower or browner by incorporation of pollen oils and propolis. The wax scales are about three millimetres across and 0.1 mm thick, and about 1100 are needed to make a gram of wax. Worker bees use the beeswax to build honeycomb cells. For the wax-making bees to secrete wax, the ambient temperature in the hive must be 33 to 36°C.
The book Beeswax Production, Harvesting, Processing and Products suggests one kilogram of beeswax is sufficient to store 22 kg of honey. Another study estimated that one kilogram of wax can store 24 to 30 kg of honey.
I knew the bees had to be secreting wax somehow. But I always imagined it to be some kind of secondary oral process. Instead they really use… specialized pores under the segments in their thorax?
Now I don’t know which version grosses me out more.
It’s not like you ain’t got glands
Ey gril, can I get a peak at them glands?
~I prefer adrenal by thyroid also works in a pinch.~
I don’t know why, but this grosses me out so much.
It’s setting my trypophobia off for sure.
Yeah it looks really disgusting, like it’s shitting soft teeth
oi you didn’t need to put that image out there in the world
you could have just kept that to yourself
Fuckin bee eczema 🤢
What a terrible day to know how to read.
I guess you can say it’s a small scale operation
How many bee jackets to make a tube of all natural chap stick?
If you spread that stuff on wood or leather, it’ll last forever.
TIL beeswax is pretty cheap. I typically use shellac on stuff that is indoor and low wear, Looks like beeswax is cheaper and about as easy to apply.
Fun fact: shellac is an insect product too
Just out here rubbing bug goo on plant corpses, guess we’re weirder than the bees
how many burgers is one lb?
you do know what quarter pounder means right?
still depends on if they’re the same pound, there are a few to chose from
You mean a Royale with Cheese?
🇬🇧 - It means it costs 25 pence, or £0.25.
'ow many shekels is that?
I haven’t got a penny. Will a ha’penny do?
