I don’t know why, but this grosses me out so much.
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Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Yeah it looks really disgusting, like it’s shitting soft teeth
Winter_Oven@piefed.social 1 year ago
oi you didn’t need to put that image out there in the world
you could have just kept that to yourself
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What a terrible day to know how to read.
mr_satan@lemmy.zip 1 year 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.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 year ago
It’s setting my trypophobia off for sure.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Me too, real “Thanks, I hate it”
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not like you ain’t got glands
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Ey gril, can I get a peak at them glands?
~I prefer adrenal by thyroid also works in a pinch.~
tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 year ago
Definitely the latter, for me; something about segmented holes just grosses the absolute Hell out of me.
deltapi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve got bad news for you about woolen fabrics…
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
You honey where the honey comes from?
Mist101@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Easy, stored in the bee-balls, that’s why they’re called BBs.
Johandea@feddit.nu 1 year 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.
don@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
What’ll really bake your noodle later on is the wax is made from honey.
meekah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, the whole bee is, if you think about it
Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you want to make a bee from scratch, you must first invent the universe
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 year ago
Whoa hey now, you’re not going to get me to think that easily
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Mostly pollen actually. The honey is just the fuel.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year 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.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Evolution does not create from nothing, it repurposes and modifies what’s on hand.
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I don’t know how I feel about this new revelation
blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 year ago
👋😬
Hi. So… how do bees work? Eli5
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
First they go to the unembeeployment office to see where they’d benefit the hive
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I never really thought about it but bees are fuckin weird
Seaguy05@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hey man, let them live their lives. Mind your own bees wax… It’s not your wax, it’s the bees wax.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Everyone should mind their beesness.
Seaguy05@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It was right there and it fly right by me.
RedSnt@feddit.dk 1 year 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.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He should use Head & Shoulders, will clear that right up.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It looks like one side of this bee is clogged
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 year ago
But is a flake the same as a scale? Bad explanation.
horseloaf@piefed.zip 1 year ago
How many flakes in a scale?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How about a morsel? A chunk?
Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
If you spread that stuff on wood or leather, it’ll last forever.
sobchak@programming.dev 1 year 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.
YerbaYerba@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Fun fact: shellac is an insect product too
kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I never thought about it, but beeswax is kinda disgusting, basically ass-grease :P
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yea, I’m vegan, so I’m mindful of milk and honey (and yes, they’re disgusting), just never really thought about what process wax exactly came from.
realitista@lemmus.org 1 year ago
Eww
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeeeeah. Blech. No offense, bees, but keep that shit private.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
How many bee jackets to make a tube of all natural chap stick?
visnudeva@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Very hairy for a beeswax producer.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
tdawg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gross, but also neat
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Weird bee teeth
woodenghost@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Damn, I somehow thought, that they made it with their mouth or something. Now I can’t stop wondering what that feels like.
jayambi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
how many burgers is one lb?
meekah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
you do know what quarter pounder means right?
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 1 year ago
🇬🇧 - It means it costs 25 pence, or £0.25.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It means bigger than a third pounder, right?
kungen@feddit.nu 1 year ago
You mean a Royale with Cheese?
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 year ago
still depends on if they’re the same pound or if one is
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Seven bald eagles and three units of freedom
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
just one
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gimme some honey and comb on vanilla ice cream
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I always though they puked it up
hypna@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How did it never occur to me to ask where bee’s wax comes from?
don@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I mean, it’s right there in the name: beeswax, its own word.
villainy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t know what I was expecting exactly but it wasn’t little wax scales coming from their abdomen
trolololol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well it’s not like it’s called beeswaxoutoftheiryuckysegmentedbody so we still have some room for imagination duh
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
‘Cause it’s nunya
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What’s nutya?
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
U & me both