$5

Single Bees wax sheet. Can be used in deep frames, Hand rolled candles, etc.

Single sheet makes two hand rolled candles.

In order to give your bees a great start for building comb in their hive, we offer 100% pure beeswax foundation. Our foundation is of the highest quality and has perfectly milled cells with deep and exact walls. We believe that pure beeswax foundation is best for the bees as it closest resembles what they build themselves in the wild.

From our experience, It’s much more difficult to get a newly installed package of bees going on plastic foundation than it is on beeswax foundation. We have found that honey bees prefer beeswax foundation over plastic. On the other hand, plastic foundation is much less time consuming to prepare because you can put it in a hive as soon as you get it.  Beeswax foundation needs a bit of preparation before placing it into your hive. This involves adding extra support especially with frames and foundation that contain honey being extracted with a centrifugal extractor. 

Our 5 5/8” unwired foundation is the most traditional type of foundation used in the industry. It comes completely unwired with no additional support. We highly recommend to add both horizontal and vertical wires yourself in order to provide the extra support. This is especially important for foundation that will be placed in the honey supers and that will be extracted as described above.  Without this wiring, your foundation could sag and bow once the bees fill the comb with brood or honey.  Sagging and bowing create inadequate crawl space for your bees in between frames. If you are wiring foundation for brood boxes, it is not absolutely necessary to add the horizontal cross-wire if you don’t want to.

Use 5 5/8” unwired foundation with 6 1/4” wedged top bar frames and 6 5/8” medium supers (also known as western supers or honey supers).