Beeswax

Beeswax is the material that honey combs are made of and it comes from young worker bees who produce wax scales from glands under their abdomen.

We use the wax from beehives to make things like soap and beeswax candles, which are loved for their sweet smell.

A photograph of beeswax before it is turned into a candle or other beeswax product.
Photograph by Frank Mikley licensed under Creative Commons.

Other names for (or types of) Beeswax include:

• Wax

Related terms

• Aculeate
• Africanised honey bees
• Apiary
• Apoidea
• Bee bread
• Cerumen
• Drone
• Eusocial
• Honey
• Honey bee
• Propolis
• Royal jelly
• Varroa mite

Related pages on this web site

• Bees
• Bees and Beekeeping: From simple bee-ginnings

See other words beginning with B