Made by nature

Every wild-produced honeycomb captures time and place and the architecture is unique to each individual bee colony. Comb is made from the bees own bodies and crafted into a profoundly important part of the bee superorganism, by the bees themselves – it can be thought of as the skeleton, skin, womb and liver of the colony, and also acts as a communication network, contributor to social immunity and functions as an extended gut of the colony. The wild honeycomb we harvest is just a small section of the nest - the uppermost part that contains the surplus food stores.

There are times of hyper-abundance of nectar and pollen in the environment - beekeepers call this a honeyflow - which triggers the bees to expand the nest and produce surplus comb. Therefore a beekeeper can take a small section of comb whilst on a honeyflow, without having any impact on the bees.