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minus-squarehypna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoHow did it never occur to me to ask where bee’s wax comes from?
minus-squaredon@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI mean, it’s right there in the name: beeswax, its own word.
minus-squarevillainy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoI don’t know what I was expecting exactly but it wasn’t little wax scales coming from their abdomen
minus-squareMajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI always kind of hoped they pooped the wax out like spider’s silk.
minus-squareTheoriginalthon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoI assumed it was like cream separating from milk, only wax from honey, but to be fair I have never really thought about it much
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoi 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.
minus-squaretrolololol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoWell it’s not like it’s called beeswaxoutoftheiryuckysegmentedbody so we still have some room for imagination duh
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 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
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.
Well it’s not like it’s called beeswaxoutoftheiryuckysegmentedbody so we still have some room for imagination duh