This beekeeper is slicing open the wax caps on the cells of honey with a hot knife.
Beeswax is collected from the hive frames and and then melted.
The leavings from the beeswax after it is filtered makes good fire starter material.
Beeswax skin care bar COURTESY PHOTOS
Most of us have purchased honey in one-pound plastic squeeze bottles from local beekeepers or farmers’ markets. Perhaps you did not know that there is a secondary and more valuable product collected during honey extraction, beeswax! Beekeepers take care to extract all the honey they can without destroying the comb that their bees need to rear new bees and to store nectar, pollen, and honey. Harves…
