They will fan the nectar until the water content reaches about 19 percent, when they will cap the honey filled cells with a thin wax layer. This capping lets the beekeepers know it is ready to harvest ...

who all take honey from the hive to the jar differently, but the basic process involves the following, says Johnson: collecting honeycomb from the hive, removing the wax caps from the cells ...

You can eat the whole honeycomb, including the honey and waxy cells surrounding it ... The spores in the honeycomb might cause botulism. The wax in the honeycomb is not fully digestible.

The life of a honey bee starts at the egg stage when the queen bee lays eggs in the cells within a honeycomb ... big enough ...