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How did it never occur to me to ask where bee's wax comes from?
I mean, it’s right there in the name: beeswax, its own word.
I don't know what I was expecting exactly but it wasn't little wax scales coming from their abdomen
I always kind of hoped they pooped the wax out like spider's silk.
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
I thought they regurgitated it into the honey combs.
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).
I hoped they pooped it out their legs like Spiderman
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.
Well it's not like it's called beeswaxoutoftheiryuckysegmentedbody so we still have some room for imagination duh
Bees bodies are beautiful.
‘Cause it’s nunya
What's nutya?
Nunya beeswax
U & me both