Beeswax The Bee Hive Product
Beeswax has been historically used in candles, to sculpt figurines, beeswax
paintings (batiking) and in casting metal even before the Bronze age. Beeswax
figurines have survived from royal Egyptian tombs dating to 3400 BC In the
tropics of northern Australia aborigines have used beeswax 30,000 to 50,000
years ago to sculpt waxen figurines. Manufacture Beeswax is manufactured by
honey bees themselves. Originally believed to have been collected from flowers
or made from pollen, beeswax was discovered in 1744 to be synthesized by four
pairs of wax-secreting epidermal glands on the ventral side of worker abdomens.
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