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Solar Wax Melter.

Solar Wax Melter.

The cleanest wax is found in honeycombs, which the bees have developed in natural construction. Natural construction always occurs when the beekeeper does not give the bees foundations as a building aid. An example of this are drone frames, which are also called construction frames.

Drone frames are empty wooden frames, which - placed in the right place in the bee colony - are built into honeycombs by the bees and are pinned by the queen exclusively with unfertilized eggs. These drone cells are preferred by the Varroa mites for reproduction because of their longer duration of cover of several days. Removal of the capped drone frames after capping, including the mites enclosed in them, is part of the natural pest control concept. The associated gentle cropping of the colony also dampens the swarming instinct.

A new addition to the garden beekeeper inventory is a solar-powered wax melter, in which such honeycombs are melted out without additional energy supply. Although the wax yield is low, the result is pure, 100% natural, light yellow, pleasantly smelling and therefore most valuable beeswax, from which the garden beekeeper produces new middle walls himself.

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