Fecha de publicación: 22/02/2007 Fuente: WIPO "beekeeper" The present invention is concerned with providing an artificial honeycomb foundation sheet (10) for use in beehives or the like, said foundation sheet being generally planar in form and comprising a three dimensional lattice of struts (12) which define, on both sides of the sheet, a respective array of depressions (20) which correspond geometrically with natural honeycomb cell bases, the array on one side of the sheet being nested with the array of depressions on the other side of the sheet, and the entire sheet, in use, being coated in bees wax which forms membranes across lattice openings defined by the struts framing the depressions.