Speaking of beeswax, you are no stranger, beeswax will produce beeswax during the growth process. It is amazing that beeswax is not only a product of bees themselves, but also a nutrient that they need to reproduce. Not only are bees used by bees, but humans have many uses for beeswax. Makeup is now a very common thing, and every girl must have more than one lipstick. But you know what? The most commonly used lipstick has beeswax in it. In addition to beauty, beeswax also plays a role in medicine, and the demand for beeswax in dentistry and pills is great. Don't look at this little bit of beeswax, but in terms of economy and utility, it works best.
The collection of beeswax is a very important task for beekeepers, and the temperature in spring and autumn is just right. And this season is also a transition period for bee farming, so the work of beekeepers to extract beeswax is mainly chosen to complete in these two seasons. If the temperature is lower, the beeswax will contain more impurities. Not only will the quality of beeswax decrease, but also the original workload of the beekeeper.
The old spleen is the main raw material for beeswax, and 30% of the old spleen should be eliminated every year. To eliminate more of the old spleen is necessary to create a new spleen, and the beekeeper must strengthen the management of the bee colony. Let bees produce more beeswax, the speed of new spleen production will be considerable, and a new spleen can produce 50 to 70 grams of wax. At the same time, the position of the spleen plate in weekdays will also affect the beeswax production of bees. Here, Jiacheng teaches you a technique, which is to widen the width between the honey spleen during the high flow period, and the space between them is enlarged. The bee will actively produce honey on both sides and the thickness of the board will increase This way, the production of beeswax will increase.
In addition, when inspecting the bee colony, pick up the falling small pieces in time, so that a group of bees can accumulate hundreds of grams of beeswax in a year. The quality of the small fragments and nest debris collected usually is relatively good, and there are few impurities in it. Therefore, these collected things and the beeswax finally collected should be treated separately. Therefore, the cut old spleen, the wax cover of the hive, the collected small debris, and the honey cover cut when shaking the honey are the main sources of our beeswax extraction.
The main raw materials are available, and the next step is manual extraction and melting. When melting beeswax, choose an aluminum or stainless steel pot. Do not put beeswax directly into the pot. In this case, it is not conducive to our stirring and taking out. Be sure to add 20% by volume of beeswax water, preferably cold water. There is another reason why beeswax cannot be melted directly, which is that it is easy to cause fire. Because the melting point of beeswax is very low, only 60 degrees, the boiling point of water we usually drink is not high. After heating, low-melting beeswax will overflow, which is conceivably very dangerous.
The beeswax honey spleen is cut into small pots with scissors and placed in a large pot. After the water in the pot is boiled, it needs to be burned for several more hours. In the process, it is constantly stirred. After stopping the heating, you will find that the purity of the upper and lower is different. This is because the spleen of the old trough contains more or less impurities such as propolis from bee larvae. The next task is to separate the impurities that settle to the bottom. Usually, the squeeze method is used, that is, the bottom beeswax is packed into a gauze bag, put back into the pot and washed with water for several hours. There is no need to stir in this process, as long as you press the gauze bag with a spoon or something, the impurities will be left in the gauze bag after repeated several times. The beeswax left in the pot is what we need, and it is poured into the prepared mold to facilitate the subsequent sales.
Using artificial large-scale extraction of beeswax is really troublesome. At this time, you can use a screw press or an oil press with the help of mechanical power. Another method is the solar energy extraction method. As the name implies, it directly melts beeswax with the heat of the sun. This method is very simple and the economic cost is not very high. The beeswax extracted by the solar energy extraction method is not easy to produce other impurities and has high purity and quality. Generally, small and medium-scale bee farmers will choose this method. However, if you use the solar energy extraction method, you must also pay attention to the residue that is finally extracted by the hot pressing method, so that the entire extraction work can be considered.
