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 hoped they pooped it out their legs like Spiderman
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
Bees bodies are beautiful.
‘Cause it’s nunya
What’s nutya?
Nunya beeswax
U & me both
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.~
Definitely the latter, for me; something about segmented holes just grosses the absolute Hell out of me.
I’ve got bad news for you about woolen fabrics…
Haha; I think the wool’s too fuzzy and not rigid enough to bother me. I’ve been trying to get more into the fiber arts in the last few years, too, so definitely not a problem that I’ve noticed.
You know where the honey comes from?
Easy, stored in the bee-balls, that’s why they’re called BBs.
I don’t know why, but this grosses me out so much.
Yeah it looks really disgusting, like it’s shitting soft teeth
What a terrible day to know how to read.
Me too, real “Thanks, I hate it”
I guess you can say it’s a small scale operation
What’ll really bake your noodle later on is the wax is made from honey.
I mean, the whole bee is, if you think about it
If you want to make a bee from scratch, you must first invent the universe
It’s bees all the way down
Sort of like how the spit in your mouth, the tears in your eyes, the snot in your nose, etc is primarily made of filtered blood.
Evolution does not create from nothing, it repurposes and modifies what’s on hand.
I never really thought about it but bees are fuckin weird
👋😬
Hi. So… how do bees work? Eli5
First they go to the unembeeployment office to see where they’d benefit the hive
He should use Head & Shoulders, will clear that right up.
Hey man, let them live their lives. Mind your own bees wax… It’s not your wax, it’s the bees wax.
Everyone should mind their beesness.
It was right there and it flew right by me.
It looks like one side of this bee is clogged
I never thought about it, but beeswax is kinda disgusting, basically ass-grease :P
And honey is more or less vomit if you want to think about like that.
Then again, if you do, remember that your cafe latte is also just boob fat and protein with some bean juice.
Yea, I’m vegan, so I’m mindful of milk and honey (and yes, they’re disgusting), just never really thought about what process wax exactly came from.
You’ll probably hate this song then
How many bee jackets to make a tube of all natural chap stick?
Gross, but also neat
Very hairy for a beeswax producer.
Any female bee in the hive will go through all the jobs available depending on their age. The bees you see flying around are at the end of the life cycle. Bees make wax from days 12 to 18. By the time they go foraging they are 21+ days old and no longer have the fuzziness of youth.
how many burgers is one lb?
you do know what quarter pounder means right?
It means bigger than a third pounder, right?
still depends on if they’re the same pound, there are a few to chose from
just one
Weird bee teeth, tooth fairy origins?
Gimme some honey and comb on vanilla ice cream
