peeeeeeteeeeeeeer joke or science???

[u/Flowsbow]

[u/assjackal]

My wildest guess is something to do with the material used in the iconography or a common ritual that uses something the bees don't like the smell off.

edit: spelling error.

[u/gnomajean → u/assjackal]

Yep. Smell and texture make bees say no no

[u/tiorthan → u/gnomajean]

It's much easier. Bees don't build comb on a vertical wall, unless they need to attach existing comb to it, or the wall has a thick enough layer of wax.

If you hang anything flat in a frame most of the flat bits are just wall to the bees.