Foraging wax. Waste not want not

[Erichalfbee]

Bees visit more than flowers
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y8ezh57qhwfhdlf/Video 19-09-2019, 17 34 34.mov?dl=0

 

[Finman]

One bee in wax and one million in flowers

 

[Erichalfbee]

One bee in wax and one million in flowers

But of course
I watched for a while and thought it quite charming
I don't suppose it makes much difference to the state of the world....nevertheless

 

[Angularity]

Are you sure you haven't taken a video of the slowest kid in the class?

You can imagine the conversation when she gets back to the hive.

'Look what I found!!' said Mary248663 excitedly, showing the wax she had foraged from the disc on the outdoor table.
'Wax. Really?' said Mary537116. 'Twenty minutes you've been out. Look, hang on...' closes her eyes and squeezes out four flakes of fresh wax, shaking them in front of Mary248663 'Don't. Do. That. Again.'
Mary 248663 slinks off to a quiet corner of the hive, sobbing silently to herself.

 

[Erichalfbee]

She was the only one there
Perhaps the others know something.

Their are usually loads mopping up propolis when I’m scraping the boxes.

I’m trying an experiment
I melted up some over cooked wax and I’m leaving it out over winter to see if the weather lightens it

Stan said by spring the bees would have taken it all away
Somehow I think he might be wrong

 

[Ian123]

Probably a bit of honey residue on bottom of cake.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Probably a bit of honey residue on bottom of cake.

If you look carefully there’s wax in her pollen basket

 

[Poly Hive]

Dani my family had some contact with a Dutch family and their first business was bleaching wax. they had large areas where they strung out what I can only describe as ribbons of bees wax to bleach. Forget over winter the summer is the bleaching time.

PH

 

[pargyle]

Dani my family had some contact with a Dutch family and their first business was bleaching wax. they had large areas where they strung out what I can only describe as ribbons of bees wax to bleach. Forget over winter the summer is the bleaching time.

PH

Perhaps the local tanning studio if they have slack times on the sunbeds ?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Dani my family had some contact with a Dutch family and their first business was bleaching wax. they had large areas where they strung out what I can only describe as ribbons of bees wax to bleach. Forget over winter the summer is the bleaching time.

PH

Yes probably but winter will give them a head start

 

[For want of a better word]

Bees visit more than flowers
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y8ezh57qhwfhdlf/Video 19-09-2019, 17 34 34.mov?dl=0

Another trait of the Native dark honeybee ( Apis mellifera mellifera)... never seen any of the exotic Mediterranean imports do that.... now who was it who recently stated that nothing eats beeswax?

Nice Video BTW

Meur ras

 

[Madge]

.... now who was it who recently stated that nothing eats beeswax? ...

But the bee isn’t eating it! she’s stashing it in her pollen baskets - as Erica pointed out - to be re-used in the hive.

 

[Beefriendly]

who was it who recently stated that nothing eats beeswax?

Wax moth larvae?


OH NO.... of course it wasn't them, they can't write. !DOH!

 

[Beefriendly]

But the bee isn’t eating it! she’s stashing it in her pollen baskets - as Erica pointed out - to be re-used in the hive.

There was an article in ABJ a few years back about giving wax back to hives and how quickly it was taken up by the bees and reused.
Of course if it's American it can't be true......