Bee wax, also known as yellow wax, beeswax, beeswax, is a kind of fatty substance secreted by age-appropriate worker bees, and is a kind of natural animal wax first discovered and utilized by human beings. For bees, it is mainly used for building hive spleens, capping the cria and capping the forage houses, etc. Therefore, beeswax is a necessary item for the survival and reproduction of bees, and a kind of bee product of bees themselves.

How is beeswax collected and extracted?

The collection of beeswax is mostly done in spring and fall. Beekeepers through the strengthening of swarm feeding management, to promote the bees more wax, more spleen, and then the use of many years of old hive spleens, the construction of the superfluous spleen, cut off the hive wax cover, the foundation, and shaking the honey cut down the honey cover and so on to collect, after artificial extraction, generally will be taken out of the honey hive, put into the pot of water heated to melting, remove the upper layer of the cocoon coat, the bee carcass, foam, and other impurities, while hot, filtering, cooling, the beeswax that is solidified into a block, floating on the water, remove, that is, the beeswax, the beeswax is not a good idea, and then the beeswax is not a good idea. The beeswax is condensed into lumps and floats on the surface of water, and then taken out, which is yellow wax. Yellow wax and then by boiling, decolorization and other processes, that is, white wax.