What is beeswax?
Beeswax is a natural substance created in thin scales from glands on the underside of the honeybee and formed into the honeycomb in the hive. To produce wax, bees must eat eight times the amount of honey so estimates say that bees fly 150,000 miles to yield one pound of beeswax. Beeswax is not only used to form the honeycomb, the bees also use it to cover, or cap, the honey in the honeycomb cells once it is ripe. As a beekeeper harvests honey, this layer is cut off. Wax obtained from the cappings is light in colour and it can be melted and used to make candles.
