Why is my beehive not producing wax?

[Forcystus]

I've had for a beehive for quite some time. In June/July it would produce wax fairly often. Since I started playing again a couple days ago, it has not produced a single beeswax. Why is this?

[DatOneGuy]

Beehives aren't known for being too stable, so you may notice that one day you were getting a ton of wax the next day nothing.

Also, make sure you plant stuff near it, as crops grow near it (they pollinate the crops) honey/wax accumulates, it seems that honey comes first and then sometime after you start getting wax.

My suggestion would to just plant a lot of crops near a few and hope for the best, carrots are good because you can replant them daily as opposed to bidaily like other crops.

[Forcystus]

Turns out the hive produced wax right after I posted this, but thanks for the tip.

[Zirikana]

I may be wrong, but i get the feeling it isn't exactly a 1:1 correspondence between crop growth and wax production, but more of a rate (crop-growth-stages per unit time per hive) thing. If i just harvest and replant a few patches of my farm per day, i'll never get any wax for weeks and weeks. When i'm in full rotation, with a dozen or so 2x8 tile patches being harvested and replanted every day, i can produce scads of beeswax in a week out of one hive. I don't have serious records or controlled experimentation, it's just a hunch.