What is beeswax from the bees perspective?

June 29, 2013 | Filed under: Bees | Posted by: Peggy Fisher

Question by Grinning Football plinny younger: What is beeswax from the bees perspective?

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None of your beeswax! nah im jk it takes 8 pounds of honey to produce a pound of beeswax and if im not right honey is made by bees vomiting…so 8 pounds of vomit from a bees perspective.

Nafeesah
June 29, 2013 at 2:19 am
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Honey bees use the beeswax to build honeycomb cells in which their young are raised and honey and pollen are stored. The wax is formed by worker bees, who secrete it from eight wax-producing mirror glands.

Peter S
June 29, 2013 at 2:58 am
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