You can watch honey bees building comb. At no point is it ever liquid. It's build up bit by masticated bit.
Siefert, P., Buling, N., & Grünewald, B. (2021). Honey bee behaviours within the hive: Insights from long-term video analysis. Plos one, 16(3), e0247323.
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