Wax is an oily substance produced by animals, plants or minerals, which is solid at room temperature, plastic, easy to melt and insoluble in water.

There are many types of waxes that can be used in modern human society, which are mainly divided into several categories:

One is vegetable wax, including wood wax, bayberry wax, candelilla wax, Japanese fine wax, carnauba wax, rice bran wax, castor wax, etc.

Second, such as beeswax, insect white wax, wool wax, whale wax, etc.

The third is mineral wax, typical of lignite wax, paraffin, petroleum wax, etc. There are also petroleum waxes that are classified into a separate category.

Fourth, synthetic waxes, such as Fischer-Tropsch wax, polyethylene wax (PE wax), polypropylene wax (PP wax), ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer wax (EVA wax), oxidized polyethylene wax, etc.

Among them, many waxes appeared very late and are the crystallization of the human chemical industry. The protagonist is currently an ant and is obviously unable to take advantage of this wax.

For example, the well-known paraffin wax, modern candles are made of this material. It is a wax paste prepared by solvent refining, solvent dewaxing or wax freezing crystallization, pressing and dewaxing obtained from the lubricating oil fraction obtained from crude oil distillation, and then deoiling and supplementing the flake or needle crystals prepared by refining.

Paraffin wax is not only used to make lighting tools such as candles, but also to make matches, fiberboard, tarpaulin, etc. as components and packaging materials for food, oral medicines and certain commodities (e.g. wax paper, crayons, candles, carbon paper), coating materials for baking containers; It is used for fruit preservation, insulation of electrical components, improving rubber aging resistance and increasing flexibility, etc.; It can also be used for oxidation to produce synthetic fatty acids. It can be described as an all-rounder

But in the context of the fact that it is almost impossible to build in the lifetime of the modern petrochemical industry, the protagonist cannot change the material of this cheap and common material.

What he can learn from is the wax that can be used under the low level of human science and technology in ancient times, that is, pure natural wax.

The most typical of these is beeswax.

In fact, there are some insect waxes that can theoretically be the main character, such as the insect wax secreted by the ash worm, which is the whitest of the natural waxes, and its state attached to the trunk of the tree looks like snow. The ash worm lives in the Sichuan generation in the protagonist's original world, and the protagonist doesn't feel that the climate of the place he is currently in is like being in Sichuan anyway, so he can only give up this option.

Other insects that secrete wax are often scarce and inconvenient to collect.

In the end, the only way to turn your gaze back to the beeswax is to turn your gaze back to the beeswax.

Beeswax, also known as yellow wax, beeswax. It is a fatty substance secreted by 4 pairs of wax glands in the abdomen of the worker bees of appropriate age in the colony. In a colony, worker bees use the wax they secrete to build their nests, caps, and feed rooms. The spleen of the nest is a place for bees to store food, nurture bees and inhabit clumps, so beeswax is not only a product of the colony, but also an essential material for its survival and reproduction.

Beeswax is a natural material that has a wide range of uses in industrial and agricultural production. In the cosmetics manufacturing industry, beeswax is contained in many beauty products, such as bath gel, lipstick, rouge, etc.; In the candle processing industry, various types of candles can be made with beeswax as the main raw material; In the pharmaceutical industry, beeswax can be used to make dental casting wax, base wax, sticky wax, pill shells; In the food industry, it can be used as coatings, packaging and outerwear for food; In agriculture and animal husbandry, it can be used as a fruit tree wax and pest adhesive; In the beekeeping industry, nest bases and wax bowls can be manufactured.

This excellent material has been used by humans for a long time, and early candles were made of beeswax, which was expensive.

This is due to the fact that collecting beeswax is not an easy task, and requires a lot of manpower and time costs.

For a long time in history, humans did not keep bees, but only sought and collected honey, wax and pupa from wild beehives.

The collection of beeswax is mostly done in spring and autumn. Collectors need to protect themselves from the attack of bee colonies through experience and technology, take out the entire beehive, after manual extraction, generally the honey after the honey is removed, put it into a pot of water to heat and melt, remove the upper layer of cocoons, bee corpses, foam and other impurities, filter while hot, let cool, beeswax will condense into a block, float on the water surface, take out, that is, yellow wax. Yellow wax is then smelted, decolorized and other processing processes to become white wax.

The protagonist who has bad intentions for the hive has a one-step ambition, and this time the purpose of his action is not only to obtain a large amount of honey and beeswax at once, but also to tame at least one queen bee to achieve the domestication of bees.

Unlike the domestication of flies and beetles, humans have never had experience in taming these two insects, but the domestication of bees is one of the few achievements of humans in the domestication of insects.

The so-called domesticated bees are actually not accurate, because there is no great difference between wild bees and domestic bees in terms of behavior and shape, and escaped domestic bees can easily become wild bees, and wild bees can also be captured and raised. Therefore, bees can only be said to be semi-domesticated and raised by humans.

Human beekeeping is natural for its products, including honey, royal jelly, propolis, pollen, beeswax, pupa and bee venom.

The history of beekeeping goes back thousands of years. For example, in primitive societies, domestic bees began when the containers used by people were occupied by the occasional bee colony, or when people tried to move the hollow tree segments where the bees lived near their residences and took care of the bee colony so that they could survive.

In most of the Neolithic period after about 5000 BC, terracotta ware was made and used; People on the Mediterranean coast used clay pots as honeycombs; The Middle East and ancient Egyptians used thick tubes made of clay to lay flat on top of each other for honeycombs. Later, people weaved baskets to use as honeycombs.

In 3000 B.C., the ancient Egyptians carried out ex-situ beekeeping in the upper and lower reaches of the Nile. Because of the early season in Upper Egypt, beekeepers put honeycombs on rafts, collected honey in one place, and then moved along the Nile River to another place where the nectar source plants flowered. In Abu Sir in Egypt; Abu Ghorb) built in 2400 B.C. on the stone wall of the Temple of the Sun, there is a picture of ancient beekeeping: one man is using a honeycomb of clay pots piled together with smoke, others are straining honey and filling it in a small jar, with a bee in the painting.

The history of beekeeping in China is also long, and historians and researchers have inferred from the results of studying oracle bones that beekeeping has existed in China since the Yin Shang era. Writings from the 3rd century onwards, such as the Jin Dynasty Emperor Fu Mi's "Gao Shi Biography", Jin Zhanghua's "Naturalist Records" and "Yongjia Diji" contain accurate records of domestic bees.

It is with the precedent of success that the protagonist is ambitious and confident in domesticating bees.