Minding your beeswax - Ecrotek Beekeeping Supplies Australia

Minding your beeswax There’s more to beekeeping than honey Honey is great, but it isn’t the only useful thing you can get from your busy bees. Beeswax, propolis, and royal jelly are just some of the other substances produced by bees – and harvested by beekeepers. Beeswax is one of the most well-known and commonly used bee byproducts. Bees construct their honeycomb by producing this wax – a complex mix of over 250 compounds. Each worker bee has eight abdominal wax glands, and creates the building material by mixing wax from her glands with her saliva. The resulting honeycomb keeps eggs and larvae safe and dry, and protects stored honey from the cold and wet. Humans have used beeswax in a number of different ways for thousands of years. We explain why it’s such a useful product, and how to

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