Beeswax is useful in a variety of applications, from health and beauty products to candles and home items. But what is beeswax exactly and how is it made?

Did you know there would be no honey without wax? You see, bee wax is the foundation of the hive. Honey bees build their comb from wax. 2WTK got an up close look at how bees make beeswax with ...

Wax artist: The most distinguishable part of a hive is the honeycomb. Honeycomb is created by worker bees through their wax glands, which secrete the wax that they then mold into honeycomb.

Beeswax is a waxy substance made by worker bees to construct hives and contain honey. This article examines whether beeswax is considered a vegan product.

Bees of a certain age develop wax glands on their abdomens during this process. During the festooning process, one can slide their finger behind that cloud of bees and gently move it outward.

They store their precious cargo in beeswax. This naturally produced hive construction material is secreted from four pairs of glands in the lower abdominal segments of young female worker bees.

Bees also produce the wax used to seal these honeycomb cells. Glands in their abdomen secrete wax, which bees use to create an airtight seal to preserve the honey they’ve created.

WORKER honey-bees produce alarm pheromones in their sting apparatus and in their mandibular glands 1. One of the components of the sting pheromone 2 has been identified as isoamyl acetate which ...

The hive's honeycombs are made of a wax secreted by the worker bees' wax glands. The massive Utah hive was hidden beneath the cabin's eaves since 1996.

Wax artist: The most distinguishable part of a hive is the honeycomb. Honeycomb is created by worker bees through their wax glands, which secrete the wax that they then mold into honeycomb.