wax cappings – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:21:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 wax cappings – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 Beeswax – Honeybee Gift https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/beeswax-a-honeybee-gift/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/beeswax-a-honeybee-gift/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:08:18 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=2777 As a beekeeper for over 20 years, I have accumulated pounds of beeswax as a welcome product of my hives. A substance formed by insects, it is simply amazing that it has been used for millennia, even found in the tombs of pharaohs, caulking the ships of Vikings. Think of it as the duct tape […]

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