wax – סלומה

Horizontal hive with round frames, Spain.

How to Render Beeswax

– Cover your counters and floors around where you will be working to ensure a quick and easy clean up in case of any wax spill.

– Create a double boiler by filling a pot with water and nestling a second pot inside the first. heat the water to a calm boil.

– Empty your ‘dirty’ honeycomb from your honey harvest into the
second pot and allow it to melt completely, keeping an eye that the wax
itself does not begin to boil.

– When the wax is completely melted, remove it from the heat and pour
it through a cheesecloth into a cardboard milk carton that you have cut
the top off of.

– Allow the wax to harden, then rip the carton away from the wax.

– Honey will have settled around the wax. save some for your tea and rinse the rest off with cool water in the sink.

– Your wax is now clean and ready to be used however you desire! time to make some balms or candles!

The Plexiglass House by Aganetha Dyck
in 2008. Commissioned by the North Dakota Museum of Art. Artist
Aganetha Dyck is a Canadian artist who collaborates with bees to create
sculptures wrapped in honeycomb.

Photo credit: Peter Dyck.

Wax-tailed planthopper with abdominal filaments of ketoester wax.

Scratching is a method to release honey from wax-sealed cells that is laborious yet gives much more control, which in this case allowed the extractor to save the capped drone brood present in the middle of
the honey-filled comb.

Sun Hive of Gaia Bees.

Wax is made by bees that have never seen the light, but they have been nourished by light: Pollen is, so to speak, materialized light. And they have the ability to free the light they have ingested, making snow-white wax. It is really a big wonder. And then Man can collect this wax, make candles and—in the dark period of the year, towards Christmas—he can free the light again from the wax in the bee.

Dr. Johannes Wirz