Every beekeeper has experienced opening up their hives and finding their honeybees have built honeycomb in the wrong place. Some beekeepers call this burr comb.
Beekeepers want even and smooth comb built on the frames we provide for the bees.
Building comb is hard work for honeybees. It requires tremendous resources and efforts to produce wax. Then they have to festoon together to mold the wax into the hexagon shape of beautiful honeycomb. Honeybees literally work themselves to death building comb and filling it with nectar and pollen.
What do beekeepers do with wax found in the wrong places? Clean, fresh beeswax is valuable! We keep it! We use it to coat honeybee frames for the following spring, or make candles, or polish furniture. There are so many uses for beeswax.
It’s a little like that great paragraph you wrote that just doesn’t fit. Maybe it belongs elsewhere in the story. Maybe it belongs in a different story.
Keep it! Don’t throw away your hard work. Just like building comb for honeybees, writing a good paragraph requires effort and is worth saving.
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