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minus-squaredon@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46arrow-down1·1 day agoI mean, it’s right there in the name: beeswax, its own word.
minus-squarevillainy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up110·1 day agoI don’t know what I was expecting exactly but it wasn’t little wax scales coming from their abdomen
minus-squareMajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·1 day agoI always kind of hoped they pooped the wax out like spider’s silk.
minus-squareTheoriginalthon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·1 day 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-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·1 day agoI thought they regurgitated it into the honey combs.
minus-squarewolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-215 hours agoThey do, but in order for them to regurgitate, they first must gorge upon it. They eat it, chew it up and spit it out in the shapes necessary (planar, cylindrical, or otherwise).
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoI hoped they pooped it out their legs like Spiderman
minus-squaretrolololol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·23 hours agoWell it’s not like it’s called beeswaxoutoftheiryuckysegmentedbody so we still have some room for imagination duh
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 thought they regurgitated it into the honey combs.
They do, but in order for them to regurgitate, they first must gorge upon it. They eat it, chew it up and spit it out in the shapes necessary (planar, cylindrical, or otherwise).
I hoped they pooped it out their legs like Spiderman
Well it’s not like it’s called beeswaxoutoftheiryuckysegmentedbody so we still have some room for imagination duh
Bees bodies are beautiful.