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Wax
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Wax (or beeswax) is the material bees use to build their honeycombs. Honey bee combs are generally free from impurities. Propolis, or “bee glue,” is a mixture of approximately 30% beeswax with resins harvested by the bees. Wax is hydrophobic, resistant to acids, and rotproof. Until the introduction of the removable, reusable honeycomb (1857) and honey extractor (1865), harvesting honey always also meant harvesting beeswax. Wax was separated from the honey by melting, then pressing and c…
Date:
2023-11-14
Bee
(2,143 words)
The European honey bee, classified by Linnaeus in 1758 as
Apis mellifera (Latin, “honey-producing bee”), is indigenous to Europe, Western Asia, and Africa. It cannot live in the wild in regions where either cold or drought makes the blossom season too short for the colony to reproduce through swarming and subsequently stockpile food for winter [10]. Other honey bee species live in South and East Asia. At the dawn of the early modern period, the keeping of bees was restricted to regions where the species occurred naturally. British settlers then took…
Date:
2019-10-14