Glands on the underside of the bee's abdomen slowly secrete tiny slivers of wax (around eight slivers per 12 hours) for other worker bees to harvest and use to build honeycomb. Not only is this a very slow process (the slivers of wax are only around the size of a pinhead), but for each pound of beeswax each bee produces, they will have visited over 30 million flowers!