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The honeybees harvest nectar from flowers, return to the hive with this sweet floral essesence and concentrate it into honey. |
Workers around 6-12 days old can produce wax scales in their four pairs of wax glands. The glands are concealed between the inter-segmental membranes, but the wax scales produced can be seen, usually even with naked eyes. The scales are thin and quite clear. After workers chew them up and add saliva, it becomes more whitish. |
These wax scales are used by the honeybees to make honeycombs to store their honey in. |
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| The beekeepers harvest this honey and during the extracting process the cappings (the ends of the hexagonal cells) are cut or scraped off allowing the honey to come out. |
These cappings are melted, cleaned from debris and formed into bulk beeswax. |
The candlemaker refines this wax and crafts it into beautiful candles. |
Did you know that beeswax has healthful properties when burned? Beeswax actually contains a property whereby when it burns Beeswax candles actually clean the air, helping to reduce the pollutant and allergen load. How do they do this? Well...more |
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| Honey Facts! Honey bees wings flap 11,400 / sec. and they will fly up to 7 miles away from their hive in search of flowers. A worker bee visits up to 100 flowers during one collection trip. To produce a pound of honey , a bee must tap into two million flowers. Honey bees must fly over 55,000 miles to produce one pound of honey. |
Invented? Bees have a handle on air conditioning! When the hive is in danger of overheating, select bees bring back water and dribble it around. Then they all gather at one end and flap their wings in the same direction, thereby cooling the hive down. |
Honey Moon Fermented honey, known as Mead, is the most ancient fermented beverage. The term "honey moon" originated with the Viking practice of consuming large quantities of Mead during the first month of a marriage. |
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