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[–] villainy@lemmy.world 114 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

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[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I always kind of hoped they pooped the wax out like spider's silk.

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[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I thought they regurgitated it into the honey combs.

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[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago*

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).

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I hoped they pooped it out their legs like Spiderman

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year 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.

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