HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Female worker bees convert the honey to beeswax. Bees huddle together to increase the temperature in the hive to at least 33 C this enables the wax glands in their abdomen to convert the sugar from honey into beeswax which oozes through small pores to form scales on their abdomen.

Detailed explanation-2: -Beeswax (cera alba) is a natural wax produced by honey bees of the genus Apis. The wax is formed into scales by eight wax-producing glands in the abdominal segments of worker bees, which discard it in or at the hive.

Detailed explanation-3: -These bees have the task of taking honey, drying it to the appropriate water content and then capping it. The workers have wax glands in their abdomen that produce sheets of wax which are used to cap the honey.

Detailed explanation-4: -Beeswax is a naturally occurring wax produced in the bee’s hives by honeybees A. mellifera. Glands under the abdomen of the bees secrete this wax and it is used to build the honey comb. There are eight glands in the bee abdominal segment (4–7) of female worker bees that produce the wax.