A thought on triaging my late Father's late candle-making supplies.

[vaurien]

Why did all the dead spiders choose to linger in the star-shaped moulds and the dead woodlice in the square moulds? All the other shapes were clear. Have I accidentally hit on one of the clues as to how the universe works?

Comments

[maverick_weirdo]

Francois Huber's discovered that there was a specific spatial measurement between the wax combs, later called 'the bee space', which bees would not block with wax, but kept as a free passage.

Having determined this 'bee space' (between 5 -8 mm), Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth later designed a series of wooden frames within a rectangular hive box, carefully maintaining the correct bee space between successive frames, and found that the bees would build parallel honeycombs in the box without bonding them to each other or to the hive walls.

Sounds like other bugs may have specific spatial preferences

[kathy_songbird]

Good gracious! I was all set to think it just a coincidence - I never thought about such things as 'bee space' or 'spider space' before. But whyever not??