The area has been designated a site of special scientific interest after rare wax caps mushrooms were discovered there.

In A. nigrocincta, however, the cell of the drone has a narrow opening, without a hard wax cap and hole.

There was also a third type of hive where workers removed the wax cap of the infected cells, but did nothing more.

Bees cover the filled in cells with wax cap that must be removed (cut by knife, etc.) before centrifugation.

"The National Trust is running a survey to log the number of wax cap mushrooms - and we haven't seen many of those about.

No pretense in that, for sure, especially for a méthode Champenoise sporting a bright red wax cap.

Jar after jar of glistening purple jelly was sealed with neat wax caps and then packed for the winter.

The point penetrated and stuck; he wrenched it out side- ways, and the whole wax cap pulled off with a slurpy sucking sound.

Chewed up insects are fed to the larva, then the larva is sealed in its cell with a wax cap.

When beekeepers extract the honey, they cut off the wax caps from each honeycomb cell with an uncapping knife or machine.

Hygienic bees can detect this is taking place and they remove the wax cap to the cell and yank out the pupa.

In recent years wax caps have been in decline because their habitat is being disturbed, developed, lost to agriculture or simply suffering from a lack of care.

The new knight ignored the wild man's roaring and popped the wax cap off the vial right under the wild man's nose.

A glass female corset covered torso filled with a sweet fruity Muscat and sealed with a vivid red wax cap.

Hygrophorus olivaceoalbus, commonly known as the olive wax cap, is a species of fungus in the genus Hygrophorus.

With grassland fungi such as wax caps, fairy clubs and earth tongues the farm already had a place on the mycological map in the UK.

Grasping the honeycomb in her powerful front legs, she uncoiled her sharp proboscis and plunged it through the wax cap of a honey cell.

(The National Trust produces an excellent leaflet on the sometimes rare wax caps growing on their undisturbed lawns.)

Finally, there is construction of a wax pupa which then matures and gnaws through the wax cap of the cell to emerge as a young bee.

I learned how to run a steam heated knife along the super, slicing the wax cap off the combs, how to load them just so into the spinner.

The grassland meadows are home to numerous wild flowers, but the land was made an SSSI because of the colourful wax cap fungi which also grows there.

Mr Harold added: "I was already fascinated by the beautiful wax cap fungi we have in such diversity here which is the produce of centuries of traditional grazing."

Common names that have been used for the mushroom include the "slimy-sheathed waxy cap", the "olive hygrophorus", the "sheated waxgill" and the "olive wax cap".

Easily finding the queen cell he'd identified earlier in the week, Henderson carefully pierced its wax cap with the hypodermic needle and injected a drop of the fluid from the brown vial into it.

In addition to the river, with the Fairies Chapel,above, the Nature Reserve contains many species of wild flowers and grasses, with brightly coloured fungi, such as Wax Caps, visible in autumn.