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Submitted ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Johandea@feddit.nu ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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  • visnudeva@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Very hairy for a beeswax producer.

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  • hypna@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How did it never occur to me to ask where bee’s wax comes from?

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ‘Cause it’s nunya

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    • don@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • villainy@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      U & me both

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You honey where the honey comes from?

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not like you ain’t got glands

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      • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Ey gril, can I get a peak at them glands?

        ~I prefer adrenal by thyroid also works in a pinch.~

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    • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Definitely the latter, for me; something about segmented holes just grosses the absolute Hell out of me.

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  • Kernal64@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t know why, but this grosses me out so much.

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    • mr_satan@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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    • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah it looks really disgusting, like it’s shitting soft teeth

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      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Fuckin bee eczema 🤢

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      • Winter_Oven@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        oi you didn’t need to put that image out there in the world

        you could have just kept that to yourself

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      • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What a terrible day to know how to read.

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  • RedSnt@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • don@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’ll really bake your noodle later on is the wax is made from honey.

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    • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, the whole bee is, if you think about it

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      • Jimbabwe@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If you want to make a bee from scratch, you must first invent the universe

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      • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Whoa hey now, you’re not going to get me to think that easily

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      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Mostly pollen actually. The honey is just the fuel.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        I don’t know how I feel about this new revelation

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Evolution does not create from nothing, it repurposes and modifies what’s on hand.

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    • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      👋😬

      Hi. So… how do bees work? Eli5

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        First they go to the unembeeployment office to see where they’d benefit the hive

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    • Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I never really thought about it but bees are fuckin weird

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It looks like one side of this bee is clogged

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  • Seaguy05@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hey man, let them live their lives. Mind your own bees wax… It’s not your wax, it’s the bees wax.

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    • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Everyone should mind their beesness.

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      • Seaguy05@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It was right there and it fly right by me.

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  • realitista@lemmus.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Eww

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  • tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He should use Head & Shoulders, will clear that right up.

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  • horseloaf@piefed.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How many flakes in a scale?

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  • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you spread that stuff on wood or leather, it’ll last forever.

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    • sobchak@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • YerbaYerba@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Fun fact: shellac is an insect product too

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  • woodenghost@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Damn, I somehow thought, that they made it with their mouth or something. Now I can’t stop wondering what that feels like.

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  • jayambi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    how many burgers is one lb?

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    • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      you do know what quarter pounder means right?

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      • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        🇬🇧 - It means it costs 25 pence, or £0.25.

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      • AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It means bigger than a third pounder, right?

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      • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You mean a Royale with Cheese?

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      • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        still depends on if they’re the same pound or if one is

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    • Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Seven bald eagles and three units of freedom

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    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      just one

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  • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gross, but also neat

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gimme some honey and comb on vanilla ice cream

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  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Weird bee teeth

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