BEESWAX

Beeswax is a natural wax produced by individual honey beesof the genus Apis. The wax is formed into "scales" by eight wax-producing glands in the abdominal segments 4 through 7 of worker bees, who discard it in or at the hive. The hive workers collect and use it for comb structural stability, to form cells for honey-storage and larval and pupal comfort and protection within the bee hive. Chemically, beeswax consists of mainly estersof fatty acidsand various long-chain alcohols.

                       The wax is formed by worker bees, which secrete it from eight wax-producing mirror glands on the inner sides of thesternites(the ventral shield or plate of each segment of the body) on abdominal segments 4 to 7. The sizes of these wax glands depend on the age of the worker, and after many daily flights, these glands begin to gradually atrophy.

                The new wax is initially glass-clear and colorless, becoming opaque after masticationand adulteration with pollen by the hive worker bees. Also, the wax becomes progressively more yellow or brown by incorporation of pollen oils and propolis. The wax scales are about 3 mm (0.12 in) across and 0.1 mm (0.0039 in) thick and about 1,100 are required to make a gram of wax.

Honey beesuse the beeswax to build honeycomb cells in which their young are raised with honey and pollen cells being capped for storage. For the wax-making bees to secrete wax, the ambient temperature in the hive must be 33 to 36 °C (91 to 97 °F).

                   When beekeepers extract the honey, they cut off the wax caps from each honeycomb cell with an uncapping knife or machine. Its color varies from nearly white to brownish, but most often a shade of yellow, depending on purity and the type of flowers gathered by the bees. Wax from the brood combof the honey bee hive tends to be darker than wax from the honeycomb. Impurities accumulate more quickly in the brood comb. Due to the impurities, the wax must be rendered before further use. The leftovers are called slum gum.

           We are doing Honey Bee Keeping project on very large scale ,we have 3 lakh honey bee keeping boxes ,from this we get 9000 Ton honey per Anum ,We have special team and honey extraction unit for extraction of  honey from honey hives ,also we maintain our products quality and its hygiene condition during its process .

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