- The best-known
animal wax is beeswax, used in
constructing the
honeycombs of beehives, but
other insects also
secrete waxes. A
major component of beeswax...
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Chinese wax,
insect wax (Chinese: 蟲蠟),
whitewax or pela (Chinese: 白蠟), is a
white to yellowish-white, gelatinous,
crystalline water-insoluble substance...
- in
other languages.
Scale insects vary
dramatically in appearance, from very
small organisms (1–2 mm) that grow
beneath wax covers (some
shaped like oysters...
- the
tensile strength.
Biomineralization occurs mainly in crustaceans. In
insects and arachnids, the main
reinforcing materials are
various proteins hardened...
- in 2021 to be
about $34
billion in the US alone.
Insects produce useful substances such as honey,
wax,
lacquer and silk.
Honey bees have been cultured...
- Lost-
wax casting – also
called investment casting,
precision casting, or cire
perdue (French: [siʁ pɛʁdy];
borrowed from French) – is the
process by which...
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Insects have
mouthparts that may vary
greatly across insect species, as they are
adapted to
particular modes of feeding. The
earliest insects had chewing...
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Adipocere (/ˈædɪpəˌsɪər, -poʊ-/), also
known as
corpse wax,
grave wax or
mortuary wax, is a
wax-like
organic substance formed by the
anaerobic bacterial...
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known as cera alba) is a
natural wax produced by
honey bees of the
genus Apis. The
wax is
formed into
scales by
eight wax-producing
glands in the abdominal...
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larvae of
wax moths,
which belong to the
family Pyralidae (snout moths). Two
closely related species are
commercially bred – the
lesser wax moth (Achroia...
