stingless bee cerumen
An environmental material which stingless bees produce by kneading self-secreted beeswax together with collected plant resins and use to build brood cells, involucrum, storage pots, and internal nest linings.
Source attestations
| Source | Label / path | Assertions | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLD | Environmental > Terrestrial > Nest > Insects nest > Beehive: Cerumen | — |
Broader habitats
- environmental material
ENVO:00010483
Also called
- Beehive: Cerumen
Curation
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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Definition research for Beehive: Cerumen kept the record ungrounded: GOLD's cerumen denotes the wax-and-propolis construction material of stingless-bee nests, not UBERON:0002297 'cerumen' from the external auditory canal, and the vendored slice has wax and resin ingredients but no term for their Meliponini mixture. A material term is requested under ENVO:00010483 'environmental material'; parent_mode=REPLACE drops the source-derived Insects nest parent because cerumen is a nest component, not a kind of nest. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.a3c5e2adba)
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DEFINED
Defined as 'stingless bee cerumen' under ENVO:00010483 'environmental material'. Definition authored from a local evidence review, read in full. The review interprets GOLD's Beehive: Cerumen leaf as Meliponini nest material rather than the UBERON:0002297 earwax homonym; ENVO:00010483 'environmental material' is used as the safe genus because ENVO:01000575 'wax' and ENVO:03510018 'resin' each capture only one component, while ENVO:01000155 'organic material' has a biomacromolecule constraint that is too narrow for the wax-resin mixture. parent_mode=REPLACE drops the source-derived Insects nest parent because cerumen is a nest component, not a kind of nest.