Wax

Science rules
A recent study by clever biologists has revealed the connection between two long standing scientific connundrums:

1. Where do candles go when they are burnt?
2. How do bees fly when its aerodynamically impossible?

Peter Scapley from Oxford smugly explains "The link is wax. Candles are made from wax and bees manufacture wax in their tiny hexagonal homes [hives]." The biology boffin recently discovered during a series of experiments that bees have found a way to harvest wax directly from the air. The wax is burnt off from candles and released into the atmosphere. "Even cavemen know insects are attracted to flames," Scapley continues, "it was my genius that realised the insects were in the process of wax collecting."

Flight of the bumble bee
Everybody knows that bees cannot fly in theory. Observational evidence of flight has always been put down to sheer luck or clever hoaxes. Now it seems, or so Scapley theorises, that because hot air rises and hot air comes from candles then a candle harvesting beast can harness this upward convection current. Everybody's a winner!

However Scapley has his opponents. George Funkhaust from Colchester Zoo expressed his strong opinion on East Anglia FM (104.8): "The guy is a loony. Bonkers. Bees make honey not wax. Honey is certainly not going help in any aerodynamic lubrication as its sticky, I should know. Honey is for toast not flight." The Oxford born Scapley countered in a follow up interview that: "George [Funkhaust] is a sad little man who spends his days shovelling elephant poo. Bees are totally different from the dumbos he looks after."