Description

Microcrystaline wax is used for wax dipping of bee hive components to increase life-span.

Colour – Light yellow

What is hot wax dipping? 

It is the placement of various beehive components, or parts, in hot

molten wax.

The term ‘dip’ means a brief immersion into a liquid.

However, when apiarists dip their hive parts in molten hot wax, it

is usually for periods of up to 15 minutes depending on the reason

for which the dipping process is being used.

Purpose of dipping hive

components

There are two reasons why apiarists hot wax dip hive parts. They

are to:

• preserve wooden hive parts so that they are protected from the

effects of weather, fungi and other causes of decay

• sterilise hive parts salvaged from hives infected with the honey

bee brood disease, American foulbrood.