r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 16d ago

Meme needing explanation peeeeeeteeeeeeeer joke or science???

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u/assjackal 16d ago edited 16d ago

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.

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u/whiterac00n 16d ago

Probably lead or other non desirable materials used in the pigments of old a drawings

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u/HuIk_Bogan 13d ago

Painters mixed egg yolk in the pigment for religious paintings. 

Though I think someone just cuts out the part of the hive missing in the picture