catgate Posted June 28, 2004 Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 I am not sure this is the right place for this question, but the erudition displayed on this forum leads me to think that someone here must know the answer.Bees build honey comb with bees wax and, after filling each cell with honey, the cell is capped with more bees wax. This is common knowledge. What I have often wondered about is whether the bee doing the job gets the wax out if its own ear by itself or does it have a helper be who gets the wax out for it? If it does it on its own its legs must be very flexible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted June 28, 2004 Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 it sort of has a helper actually... :huh: The youngest bees cluster in large numbers to raise their body temperature. Wax producing glands under their abdomen slowly excrete slivers of wax about the size of a pinhead. Other worker bees ‘harvest’ these wax scales and take them to the part of the hive requiring the new wax. Bees use about 6lb of honey to produce 1lb of wax. :P :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted June 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 Nel, Someone is pulling your leg. You don't get abdomen wax. You can get leg wax and ceiling wax, but abdomen wax? never. Incidentally, why would anyone want to wax a ceiling?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 28, 2004 Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 Incidentally, why would anyone want to wax a ceiling??To keep it waterproof Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 I get fluff in my bellybutton. Any use for that ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted June 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 It is widely known and accepted that ear wax is simply "dead" noise. Sound travels extremely quickly (some say around mach1) and so when it enters the ear it hits the ear drum at a fatal speed and simply drops dead. Over time this "debris" builds up and becomes wax. This is why older people sometimes have to visit a medical centre, or even a doctor, to have the wax syringed out. This is most noticable in older people who listen a lot. Whist on the subject of ears and insects I should mention the work done by my uncle, who proved that spiders' ears are in their legs. He did this by first training a spider to obey commands. This was achieved by kindness and rewards (feeding it tit bits and flies etc.) He would say "Left" and it would go left. "Right" and it would go right. "Stop", "Go". "Forwards", "Back" etc. were all obeyed with similar exactitude. Then one day he pulled all its legs off and it went deaf.Uncle Doris was a wonderful person. He mistakenly started his professional career at the Barnoldswick Institute of Etymology and wound up as Emeritus Professor of Knotted String at Strathclyde Municiple Baths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 It is widely known and accepted that ear wax is simply "dead" noise. Sound travels extremely quickly (some say around mach1) and so when it enters the ear it hits the ear drum at a fatal speed and simply drops dead. Over time this "debris" builds up and becomes wax. This is why older people sometimes have to visit a medical centre, or even a doctor, to have the wax syringed out. This is most noticable in older people who listen a lot. Whist on the subject of ears and insects I should mention the work done by my uncle, who proved that spiders' ears are in their legs. He did this by first training a spider to obey commands. This was achieved by kindness and rewards (feeding it tit bits and flies etc.) He would say "Left" and it would go left. "Right" and it would go right. "Stop", "Go". "Forwards", "Back" etc. were all obeyed with similar exactitude. Then one day he pulled all its legs off and it went deaf.Uncle Doris was a wonderful person. He mistakenly started his professional career at the Barnoldswick Institute of Etymology and wound up as Emeritus Professor of Knotted String at Strathclyde Municiple Baths.:D :D Much better than C.C's jokes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linc Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 I think the bee's are a little bit selfish.You say it takes about six pounds of honey to make 1 pound of bee's wax.Think how cheap Honey could be if they didn't waste their time making wax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 That was a strange topic, but I think I can agree with nellies answer most. :D The worker bee's are like the servents (they do all the work) and the queen just sits back sipping her wine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted June 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 The worker bee's are like the servents (they do all the work) and the queen just sits back sipping her wine.Canadian bees might drink wine but here in UK they drink mead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 The worker bee's are like the servents (they do all the work) and the queen just sits back sipping her wine.Canadian bees might drink wine but here in UK they drink mead. Sorry catgate, personally I drink beer. (if I drink at all) So I'm not boned up on my drinking habits of bees from other countries. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 :huh: I've decided to stay out of this conversation now.... it has gone a bit silly!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 :huh: I've decided to stay out of this conversation now.... it has gone a bit silly!!You mean it wasn't when it started? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 :huh: I've decided to stay out of this conversation now.... it has gone a bit silly!!Anything to do with blonde's just has to be silly, SURELY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 andsome, is that ANOTHER composer in your signature, and he is also the worlds greatest? or is that the same one?Off topic, but this thread never really had a topic anyways! (sorry catgate :)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 andsome, is that ANOTHER composer in your signature, and he is also the worlds greatest? or is that the same one?Off topic, but this thread never really had a topic anyways! (sorry catgate :))That is a better and younger photograph of the one and only Gustav Mahler. The worlds GREATEST COMPOSER EVER. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted June 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 No, No. It is an older photograph. It must be if he is a younger man. I notice that he seemed to prefer looking at things from a different point of view in his earlier years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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