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Wax foundation or honeycomb base is a plate made of wax with the base of the honeycomb. It is used in beekeeping to give the bees a foundation on which they can build the honeycomb. Wax foundation is considered one of the most important inventions in modern beekeeping.〔 Honeycomb built on wax foundation has important advantages over natural honeycomb: * Bees make the honeycomb more quickly, and therefore can spend less energy on making the honeycomb and more on making honey.〔 * The number of drone cells is lessened, which reduces the number of drones.〔 * The cells have thicker bottoms, and thus the honeycomb is stronger and can withstand impacts, heat and centrifugation better.〔 == History == Wax foundation was invented by German Johannes Mehring in 1857,〔 not long after Langstroth constructed the Langstroth hive (1851).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Istorijski razvoj košnice )〕 Mehring's wax foundation had only the bottom of the cells, and today's base with the foundation of the cells was invented by US beekeeper Samuel Wagner.〔 At first, wax foundations were made in the wax foundation press.〔 The first presses were made of wood, while later presses could be made of plaster, cement, and finally metal, which are the ones used today.〔 Wagner also invented the wax foundation rollers, but never perfected them; the first usable rollers were made by Amos Root and precise mechanic Alva Washburn in 1875. In 1895. Detroit inventor Edward Weed invented rollers that can make wax foundation in a continuous roll. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wax foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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