Honey and bees wax were often added to wine, introducing an even older drink (mead).

The cactus stem is thicker at one of its ends, this will go upside and coupled with the bee wax head which carries the feather mouth piece.

Cattle, pigs and cheeses were among the chief foodstuffs, from a wide range of produce including sheep, fish, rye, barley, bee wax and honey.

Important trade items included elephant and rhinoceros tusks, cardamom, bee wax, aromatic woods and betel nut.

The combination of these substances, as in its "buzzer blend" of bee pollen, bee wax, royal jelly (the gland secretions of honeybees) and vitamin E, are not exactly scientifically formulated.

The instrument's head, called a fotuto in Spanish, is made with bee wax mixed with charcoal powder to prevent the wax melting in high temperatures, which also gives the head it a characteristic black color.