I don’t know why, but this grosses me out so much.
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Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Yeah it looks really disgusting, like it’s shitting soft teeth
Winter_Oven@piefed.social 2 months ago
oi you didn’t need to put that image out there in the world
you could have just kept that to yourself
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What a terrible day to know how to read.
mr_satan@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Fact check me, but isn’t honey just bee vomit? Like it’s a little bit digested nectar, no? So knowing that bees was is not spit or puke equivalent is less gross to me.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It’s setting my trypophobia off for sure.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Me too, real “Thanks, I hate it”
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not like you ain’t got glands
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Ey gril, can I get a peak at them glands?
~I prefer adrenal by thyroid also works in a pinch.~
tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 months ago
Definitely the latter, for me; something about segmented holes just grosses the absolute Hell out of me.
deltapi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve got bad news for you about woolen fabrics…
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You honey where the honey comes from?
Mist101@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Easy, stored in the bee-balls, that’s why they’re called BBs.
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
I guess you can say it’s a small scale operation
Johandea@feddit.nu 2 months ago
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.
don@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
What’ll really bake your noodle later on is the wax is made from honey.
meekah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, the whole bee is, if you think about it
Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you want to make a bee from scratch, you must first invent the universe
TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 months ago
Whoa hey now, you’re not going to get me to think that easily
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Mostly pollen actually. The honey is just the fuel.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
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.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Evolution does not create from nothing, it repurposes and modifies what’s on hand.
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I don’t know how I feel about this new revelation
blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 months ago
👋😬
Hi. So… how do bees work? Eli5
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
First they go to the unembeeployment office to see where they’d benefit the hive
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I never really thought about it but bees are fuckin weird
Seaguy05@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hey man, let them live their lives. Mind your own bees wax… It’s not your wax, it’s the bees wax.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Everyone should mind their beesness.
Seaguy05@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was right there and it fly right by me.
RedSnt@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Apparently a strong hive can have a colony of around 60,000 bees, so 500000/16 = 31250 bees, meaning it’s possible, albeit unlikely because not all bees work the same, but it is almost theoretically possible for a big colony to make 2 lbs a day then.
Assuming flakes and scales are the same thing as well.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He should use Head & Shoulders, will clear that right up.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It looks like one side of this bee is clogged
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 months ago
But is a flake the same as a scale? Bad explanation.
horseloaf@piefed.zip 2 months ago
How many flakes in a scale?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How about a morsel? A chunk?
Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
If you spread that stuff on wood or leather, it’ll last forever.
sobchak@programming.dev 2 months ago
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.
YerbaYerba@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Fun fact: shellac is an insect product too
kazerniel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I never thought about it, but beeswax is kinda disgusting, basically ass-grease :P
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
realitista@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Eww
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeeeeah. Blech. No offense, bees, but keep that shit private.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
How many bee jackets to make a tube of all natural chap stick?
visnudeva@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Very hairy for a beeswax producer.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
tdawg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gross, but also neat
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Weird bee teeth
woodenghost@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Damn, I somehow thought, that they made it with their mouth or something. Now I can’t stop wondering what that feels like.
jayambi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
how many burgers is one lb?
meekah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
you do know what quarter pounder means right?
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 months ago
🇬🇧 - It means it costs 25 pence, or £0.25.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It means bigger than a third pounder, right?
kungen@feddit.nu 2 months ago
You mean a Royale with Cheese?
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 months ago
still depends on if they’re the same pound or if one is
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Seven bald eagles and three units of freedom
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
just one
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gimme some honey and comb on vanilla ice cream
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I always though they puked it up
hypna@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How did it never occur to me to ask where bee’s wax comes from?
don@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I mean, it’s right there in the name: beeswax, its own word.
villainy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t know what I was expecting exactly but it wasn’t little wax scales coming from their abdomen
trolololol@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well it’s not like it’s called beeswaxoutoftheiryuckysegmentedbody so we still have some room for imagination duh
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
‘Cause it’s nunya
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s nutya?
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
U & me both