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Discover beeswax – What is beeswax?
Beeswax can be used for multiple purposes from cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, candles, machining, restoring antiques, and of course, as wax foundation sheets.
We are beeswax sheet suppliers and also supply beeswax blocks in assorted bars.
The beeswax foundation sheets fit into a brood frame for a bee hive and come as a yellow sheet of beeswax.
The beeswax blocks or beeswax bars are available per Kilogram either by collection at our shop or by mail order.
Honey Bee Articles – Discover beeswax
- Perfect honey storage – the honeycomb
- Superstructure – the beehive
Perfect Honey Storage – the honeycomb
Honey bees have been harvesting nectar and pollen for millennia. The bee design has stood the test of time. HoneyBees keep their families, their young, and their queen bee in specially designed cells. One of these cells in a massive collection is called the honeycomb. It’s where the perfect honey storage unit is found.
Read more on the honeycomb here…
Superstructure – the beehive
The beehive is a massive interdependent superstructure that man is still trying to emulate in the world’s most complex and developed cities. We could take a leaf out of the honey bees’ book on planning and utilization of space and resources. In little less than one meter squared, up to 100 000 honey bees have been estimated as living harmoniously together. Every element of human dwelling and utility is provided for in the superstructure. Military, mother, father, nursing, provider, breeder, storage, water supply, and traffic to manage. The beehive is a superstructure…
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What is Beeswax? – Discover beeswax
Beeswax is a natural wax produced in the bee hive of honey bees of the genus Apis. It is mainly esters of fatty acids and various long-chain alcohols. For a honey bee keeper, 10 pounds of honey yields 1 pound of wax. Or about 4Kg of honey should yield roughly 400g of beeswax.
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