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• hypna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How did it never occur to me to ask where bee’s wax comes from?

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  • don@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean, it’s right there in the name: beeswax, its own word.

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    • villainy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t know what I was expecting exactly but it wasn’t little wax scales coming from their abdomen

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    • trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well it’s not like it’s called beeswaxoutoftheiryuckysegmentedbody so we still have some room for imagination duh

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ‘Cause it’s nunya

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    • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What’s nutya?

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    U & me both

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• Johandea@feddit.nu ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not like you ain’t got glands

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    • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ey gril, can I get a peak at them glands?

      ~I prefer adrenal by thyroid also works in a pinch.~

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  • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Definitely the latter, for me; something about segmented holes just grosses the absolute Hell out of me.

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    • deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve got bad news for you about woolen fabrics…

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    • Tonava@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Trypophobia?

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  • ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You honey where the honey comes from?

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    • Mist101@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Easy, stored in the bee-balls, that’s why they’re called BBs.

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• user1234@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I guess you can say it’s a small scale operation

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• Kernal64@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t know why, but this grosses me out so much.

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  • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah it looks really disgusting, like it’s shitting soft teeth

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    • Winter_Oven@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      oi you didn’t need to put that image out there in the world

      you could have just kept that to yourself

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    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What a terrible day to know how to read.

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    • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fuckin bee eczema 🤢

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  • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s setting my trypophobia off for sure.

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  • mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Me too, real “Thanks, I hate it”

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• kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I never thought about it, but beeswax is kinda disgusting, basically ass-grease :P

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But is a flake the same as a scale? Bad explanation.

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• don@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What’ll really bake your noodle later on is the wax is made from honey.

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  • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean, the whole bee is, if you think about it

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    • Jimbabwe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you want to make a bee from scratch, you must first invent the universe

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Whoa hey now, you’re not going to get me to think that easily

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    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Mostly pollen actually. The honey is just the fuel.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know how I feel about this new revelation

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Evolution does not create from nothing, it repurposes and modifies what’s on hand.

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  • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    👋😬

    Hi. So… how do bees work? Eli5

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      First they go to the unembeeployment office to see where they’d benefit the hive

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  • Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I never really thought about it but bees are fuckin weird

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• Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How many bee jackets to make a tube of all natural chap stick?

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• RedSnt@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• Seaguy05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hey man, let them live their lives. Mind your own bees wax… It’s not your wax, it’s the bees wax.

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  • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Everyone should mind their beesness.

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    • Seaguy05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It was right there and it fly right by me.

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• RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It looks like one side of this bee is clogged

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• tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  He should use Head & Shoulders, will clear that right up.

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• realitista@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Eww

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeeeeah. Blech. No offense, bees, but keep that shit private.

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• horseloaf@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How many flakes in a scale?

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How about a morsel? A chunk?

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• visnudeva@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Very hairy for a beeswax producer.

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  • FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you spread that stuff on wood or leather, it’ll last forever.

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  • sobchak@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • YerbaYerba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Fun fact: shellac is an insect product too

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• tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Gross, but also neat

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• woodenghost@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Damn, I somehow thought, that they made it with their mouth or something. Now I can’t stop wondering what that feels like.

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• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Weird bee teeth

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• jayambi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  how many burgers is one lb?

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  • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    you do know what quarter pounder means right?

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    • AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It means bigger than a third pounder, right?

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    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      🇬🇧 - It means it costs 25 pence, or £0.25.

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    • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You mean a Royale with Cheese?

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    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      still depends on if they’re the same pound or if one is

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  • Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Seven bald eagles and three units of freedom

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    just one

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• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Gimme some honey and comb on vanilla ice cream

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