A worker in wax: a. a bee that makes wax; b. a maker of waxwork (Worcester, 1860).
1821. trans. Huber’s New Observ. Nat. Hist. Bees (ed. 3), 336. When hives are full of combs, the wax workers disgorge their honey into the ordinary magazines, making no wax.
So Wax-working a. (of a bee) making wax.
1827. E. Bevan, Honey-Bee, 367. The power of producing wax is common both to the nursing- and wax-working bees.
