Titlebook: Honeybee Nests; Composition, Structu H.R. Hepburn,C.W.W. Pirk,O. Duangphakdee Book 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Beeswax.Biom

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Communication by Vibrations and Scents in the Comb,medium and with distance, beeswax is a medium for sound transmission. Pheromones in comb serve as slow-release systems with long time constants and include transmissions of colony odour, queenrightness, cell capping, colony odour, kin recognition, footprint pheromones, wax-salvaging behaviour etc. T

Grasping

Talkative

The Significance of Brood,unction of the number of young bees in a colony, but the greatest amount of wax produced/bee, relative to colony size, occurs in small colonies. Bees prevented from brood-rearing produce the same amount of wax as those engaged in both comb-building and brood-rearing. Colonies precluded from comb con

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Construction of Combs,tection of gravity. Building bees appear to exploit a sense of gravity which was shown by disrupting the function of sense organs and then observing the effects on comb construction. Bees detect gravity by an unfettered sense organ of the neck and orient themselves during comb construction, based on

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concert

Construction of Cells,programme; but the rather wide tolerances seen among cells show that bees cannot make precise measurements. In commercial beeswax foundation, both the cell base and the hexagonal rims of the cells have a pronounced taper to them. However, the natural outermost limits of cell patterns, and not the ce

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Conversion of Wax Scales into Comb Wax,e comb in a random array, the addition of which improves the load-carrying capacity of the combs. Over time, the combs become fibre-reinforced composite materials, with properties entirely different from the individual components. Wax scales form as the liquid wax fractions transude from the pore ca

dissolution