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Want to give comb honey a try? This pure honey comes to you exactly as the bees made it – still wrapped in the soft white wax the bees make to store their honey. To eat comb honey, just dig in with a spoon and devour sweetly. Most people eat the wax in the honey comb (it is good for you!) or you may simply spit it onto the kitchen floor – or save enough to make a candle!
Honey comb is made entirely by honey bees. As bees gather honey, they also make beeswax. Both products come from the nectars of flowers which ooze out of blossoms. If honey bees did not gather this nectar, it would all be lost forever. So, the bees pollinate their flower friends and in return, the bees are given the nectar. Bees carry the nectar back to their hives in special honey-tummy tanks. In the hive, nectar becomes honey and beeswax. The wax is shaped into the beautiful hexagonal comb to hold the excess honey.Beekeepers only take the extra comb honey - bees in Canada make about 300 pounds of honey every year but they only eat 100 pounds - so the beekeeper gets to harvest the surplus. Beekeepers give their bees a warm, dry home from which bees fly freely. No one makes the bees stay - they can leave any time and find a better or different home if they wish. Beekeepers protect their honey bees and do not kill them. A hive of bees can live for many, many years!
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