Where do bees get beeswax?
Bees actually produce their own beeswax. On the underside of the bee’s abdomen there are eight glands that secrete the liquid wax. As the wax hardens it forms small flakes that are then removed by the bee with its hind legs and brought up to the bee’s mandibles. Here, it is masticated into a malleable form where it is then used to build comb. To give you an idea of just how small these flakes are, one pound of the wax equates to about 570,000 of these flakes.
