• don@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

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

    • villainy@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

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

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 month ago

        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.

    • trolololol@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

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