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• MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought they regurgitated it into the honey combs.

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      • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They do, but in order for them to _re_gurgitate, 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hoped they pooped it out their legs like Spiderman

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨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.

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